Sometimes mathematicians go a little overboard with their naming.
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There's a billion simple looking expressions which are not known to be transcendental numbers or not. It's cute simple to state but hard to prove at its best.
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- www.quantamagazine.org/recounting-the-history-of-maths-transcendental-numbers-20230627/ How Math Achieved Transcendence by David S. Richeson (2023).