I'm looking for the solution for the equation $E_1(x)=e^{-x}$, where $E_1(x)$ is the exponential integral function. The solution is approximately 0.434818204, but is this constant well known/studied?
The reason I think this constant should be important is that exponential integral behaves like $e^{-x}$ for larger $x$ and like $-\log(x)$ for smaller $x$, so roughly this point (and, for that matter, when $E_1(x)=-\log(x)$, around $x \approx 0.676355077$) are natural "transition points" to study. Furthermore, the function $x E_1(x)$ is a "sharpened" version of $x e^{-x}$ and $x \log(x)$ and its maximum is attained at the point I'm interested in (whereas maximums of the other two functions are trivially attained at $x=1$ and $x=e$).