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

Raymond Toy writes:
>>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Palazzolo <frank.palazzolo at mcm1.com> writes:
> 
>     Frank> I'm just curious if there are other functions that exist in Maxima that fall
>     Frank> into this same category - i.e. "Function implemented enough for
>     Frank> calculational work but symbolically separate from most of the rest of the
>     Frank> machinery of Maxima".  (log10(x)/log(x) or integral(log10(x),x) does
>     Frank> nothing.)
> 
> There are probably others, but here are a few of them that I know
> about:
> 
>      %he[n] (z)                     Hermite polynomial (Nota bene: `he', not `h'. See A&S 22.5.18)
>      hstruve[n] (z)                 Struve H function
>      lstruve[n] (z)                 Struve L function
>      %f[p,q] ([], [], expr)         Generalized Hypergeometric function
>      gammagreek(a,z)                Incomplete gamma function
>      gammaincomplete(a,z)           Tail of incomplete gamma function
>      slommel
>      %m[u,k] (z)                    Whittaker function, 1st kind
>      %w[u,k] (z)                    Whittaker function, 2nd kind
>      erfc (z)                       Complement of the erf function
>      ei (z)                         Exponential integral (?)
>      kelliptic (z)                  Complete elliptic integral of the first kind (K)
>      %d [n] (z)                     Parabolic cylinder function
> 

Off-topic.  I strongly dislike erratic the way these
function are named.   Probably specint and corresponding
documentation needs some revision.

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