E constant, what is it? i know its a dumb question :P just never seen it in math

Energy Energy = mass x speed of light... or... Elevation or...

me <-- confused :x

What context are you reading or using the "E constant" in. R

in the manual is a list of things you can use in formulas working on shaders now, E and Pi are listed for constants i get Pi (duh) but E?-_-

Sorry, can't help. I don't have a clue. Energy wouldn't be applied here, would it? Maybe elevation... Good luck

It's a magic constant. e=2.718281828... It is used in various formulas like natural logarithms (log to the base e rather than log to the base 10), but I'm not sure of much more. It's been a long time since I had to deal with it.

Attached Link: http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/Math/Math-e.htm

e is usually defined by the equation:

e = limit of (1 + 1/n)^n for n from zero to infinity

The number e was first studied by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler in the 1720s, although its existence was more or less implied in the work of John Napier, the inventor of logarithms, in 1614. Euler was also the first to use the letter e for it in 1727 (the fact that it is the first letter of his surname is coincidental). As a result, sometimes e is called the Euler Number, the Eulerian Number, or Napier's Constant (but not Euler's Constant).

An effective way to calculate the value of e is not to use the defining equation above, but to use the following infinite sum:

e = 1/0! + 1/1! + 1/2! + 1/3! + 1/4! + ...

ref: http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.e.html

o.o' thanks

Still don't know what it can be used for in Carrara ;-))

creating a 3d calculator =P