Agreed. I'm just saying that such a common and important function should have a short name. And giving it the name e will be neat as it represents e^. The only counterargument I can think of is that making function names longer makes them easier to visually distinguish from variables.

Avoiding cramped and ever-rising superscripts, which is why we have exp.

Of course these are my early freshman level observations. Maybe more reading will show me how wrong I am being. (4/n)

These responses in the colonial period are also the subject matter of many of these works. But there seems to be very little self-reflexivity that they themselves are playing out a later act of the very drama that they are studying. (3/n)

One, trying to catch up and if possible beat the West at its own technology. Hence Theory. Two, trying to establish incommensurality to say that we were never in a race anyway. Hence Orientalism. (2/n)