The number e (or Euler’s number, for the 18th century mathematician) is defined by the formula:

$$ e = \lim_{n \to \infty} \left(1 + \frac{1}{n}\right)^n $$

It is an irrational number (meaning that it cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers; its decimal expansion neither repeats nor terminates) that approximates to 2.71828. It is commonly used in calculating rates of growth and decay.

Such as the compound interest accrued on a superannuation fund.

Introduction

Welcome to the post race recap!

I went to the track yesterday and ran 34km. Which is 85 laps of a standard 400m track. And I can confirm it was a dumb idea (as is the tradition). I am exceptionally sore. It took four hours and 13 minutes to finish. Which is a lot of running.

I’ll elaborate here on the practicalities of how to go about running for 4 hours.

we prefer ’they/them'

we prefer the third person plural as we believe that we are more than one person

we are typing these letters into a computer keyboard

and we are reading these words on our website

the plurality of our singularity

this piece originated from a prompt: a birthday letter from us at 32 to our future present self - and yet, we found an obstruction, a blockage, as traditionally (previously) the birthday letter would be exchanged with one from MADDY, whom we have sadly not encountered for a hot minute. sunshine and turtles going out to you, homeslice.

and so, what follows is a treatise on THE HAIR CRISIS, and how it came to be THE HERE CRISES

People have asked me where I’ve been. They’ve noticed I’m not in any of the photos of Bench in Hawaii, and that I wasn’t at Eastern Regionals two weekends ago. I’m okay, but i didn’t feel up to flying to Kaimana or driving to Canberra.

February was a month for me, and really it was a month after a couple of other months. I’m a big disc nerd; I love friz. The high of friends + running has always been a solid foundation when other things haven’t been going so well. I missed a couple of Brunches with the boys, which was disappointing, even if I think it was the right choice.