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by ctrlrsf 548 days ago
How do you even know this?
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Spend some time doing math and you'll pick up a few without noticing. Somewhat path dependent, but they do crop up.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_constants

Some of those are quite obscure
And some aren't; it's not a list of "commonly encountered" constants, just a list.