Top 10 reasons why pi is better than e.

10) Children first learn of e in the first grade, but don't learn of pi until much much later in life.

9) e ~=2.718281828459045, which can be easily memorized to its billionth place, whereas pi needs "skills" to be memorized.

8) The character for e is so cheap that it can be found on a keyboard. But PI is special (it's under "special symbols" in word processor programs.)

7) PI is the bigger piece of "pie".

6) e has an easy limit definition and infinite series. The limit definition of pi and the infinite series are much harder.

5) e you understand what it is even though you start learning it late when you're in pre-calculus. But pi, even after five or six years it's still hard to know what it really is.

4) People mistakenly confuse Euler's Number (e) with Euler's Constant (gamma). There is no confusion with the one and only PI.

3) e is named after a mortal man, but pi stands for itself.

2) Pi is much shorter and easier to say than "Euler's Number".

1) To read pi, you don't have to know that Euler's name is really pronounced Oiler.