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Question: Confused about "e" (2.71828...) in Maple

Question:Confused about "e" (2.71828...) in Maple

kaosguy 0 Maple
May 23 2011
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I'm new to Maple and find some aspects of the syntax and UI confusing.  The manual isn't much help.  In the case of "e"...

1) If I type in:    evalf(e^1,10) by just typing the letter e from the keyboard, I get back the letter e.  But if I go into the palette and select the expression e^a, and put it in evalf that way (for a=1) I get back a numerical value for e.  I can see that one of these e's is italicized and one isn't...???

1) I read (in various places) that Maple understands it to be the value of 2.71828 *IF* you type it in as  "E".  That doesn't seem to be true.  If I type in evalf(E,10) I just get back "E".

Can someone clarify?

Thanks.
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