log10, was: bug report, or am I doing something wrong?

hello everyone,

> Would it be too much just to create a new function, say " log_10() ", for
> all those high school kids out there, such as moi???

actually, i'm in favor of this, although i would call it log10.
(i don't want log2, ln, and log_a, only log10.)

don't forget, even fortran has a log10 function.
(although it was called alog10 to indicate the real type.)

the difficulty with log10(x) := log(x)/log(10); is that log10
goes away as soon as it is entered (and in its place, log appears).
what i want to see is log10 acting as a distinct function,
which doesn't simplify to log automatically.

comments?

robert dodier