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Euler and the E in Plain View
The natural logarithm means what number do I need to raise E to to get the number I'm thinking of. People took a while to realize that it was log to the base E. What they had was one of these infinite series expansions describing the area under the curve. And sometime after the fact, they realized that infinite series expansion was in fact the natural log.