log10, was: bug report, or am I doing something wrong?
Subject: log10, was: bug report, or am I doing something wrong?
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:03:45 -0700
hello stavros,
> Understood, but that means you lose all of Maxima's "knowledge" about
> logs. You would presumably want log10(a*b) to simplify to
> log10(a)+log10(b), etc., which would mean duplicating the log
> simplifier. You would want logcontract, integrate, limit, realpart,
> etc. to operate on log10. You would want comparison to know that
> log10(x)<log(x) when x>1, etc. etc.
yeah. well, it could happen with sufficient effort, but
i'm not willing to invest the weeks or months necessary,
so it won't happen any year soon ...
best
robert