A member of the smallest algebraically closed subfield of which is closed under the exponentiation and logarithm operations.
Liouvillian Number
See also
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References
Chow, T. Y. "What is a Closed-Form Number." Amer. Math. Monthly 106, 440-448, 1999.Richardson, D. "The Elementary Constant Problem." In Proc. Internat. Symp. on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, Berkeley, July 27-29, 1992 (Ed. P. S. Wang). ACM Press, 1992.Ritt, J. Integration in Finite Terms: Liouville's Theory of Elementary Models. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
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