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: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:29:14 -0700
hello stavros,
> I think we all agree that it's not a big deal to add it. The question
> is whether it is a good idea to add it *incompletely*.
completely enough for computational problems, is what i'm proposing.
> > since log10 is typically used for calculations only,
> > i don't see any need to reproduce all of the algebraic
> > machinery already in place for log base e.
>
> Then why add it at all?
the motivating desideratum is to express problems and
their solutions in the language customary in the problem
domain.
log10 is a function which appears in problems in some
nontrivial domains (high school math, engineering, maybe others).
> So you would find it acceptable that log10(x)/log(x) not simplify?
yes.
best,
robert