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| name = 
| symbol = 
| type = 
| fields_of_application = 
| main_applications = 
| value = 
| value_base = <!-- if not base ten -->
| algebraic_form = 
| approximation = 
| approximation_base = <!-- if not base ten -->
| continued_fraction = 
| continued_fraction_periodic =
| continued_fraction_finite = 
| discovery_date = 
| discovery_person = 
| discovery_work = 
| named_after = 
| notes = 
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Example

The code below produces the box opposite:

User:Dan Leonard/Draft template:Infobox mathematical constant

{{User:Dan Leonard/Draft template:Infobox mathematical constant
| name = Pi
| symbol = {{pi}}
| type = [[Transcendental number|Transcendental]]
| approximation = 3.1415926535...
| fields_of_application = {{flatlist |
* [[Geometry]]
* [[calculus]]
}}
}}

User:Dan Leonard/Draft template:Infobox mathematical constant

{{User:Dan Leonard/Draft template:Infobox mathematical constant
| name = Euler's number
| symbol = {{mvar|e}}
| type = [[Transcendental number|Transcendental]]
| approximation = 2.71828...
| fields_of_application = {{flatlist |
* [[Calculus]]
* [[statistics]]
}}
| discovery_date = 1685
| discovery_person = [[Jacob Bernoulli]]
| discovery_work = ''Quæstiones nonnullæ de usuris, cum solutione problematis de sorte alearum, propositi in Ephem. Gall. A. 1685''
| named_after = {{flatlist |
* [[Leonhard Euler]]
* [[John Napier]]
}}
}}

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