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Exponential function

You can write the exponential function as the limit value

 

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Explanation

From the binomial development of (1 + ax)^1/a follows

It is about the limit a → 0, thus

and that gives a power series for the exponential function, so

 

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History This formula was developed in 1821 by the French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy.

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