Euler's constant
| Euler's constant | |
|---|---|
| γ 0.57721... | |
| General information | |
| Type | Unknown | 
| Fields | |
| History | |
| Discovered | 1734 | 
| By | Leonhard Euler | 
| First mention | De Progressionibus harmonicis observationes | 
| Named after | |
Euler's constant (sometimes called the Euler–Mascheroni constant) is a mathematical constant, usually denoted by the lowercase Greek letter gamma (γ), defined as the limiting difference between the harmonic series and the natural logarithm, denoted here by log:
Here, ⌊·⌋ represents the floor function.
The numerical value of Euler's constant, to 50 decimal places, is:
0.57721566490153286060651209008240243104215933593992...