newbie question about log10



On 3/11/06, Joel Salomon <joelcsalomon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there then a contract_log10 that will take the answer, which will
> be in terms of log, and put it into terms of log10?

There is now -- try the current revision of log10.mac from cvs.
(http://cvs.sf.net/maxima/maxima/share/contrib)

I doubt if contract_log10 is a perfect inverse of expand_log10 --
I suspect attempting to undo the log10 --> log expansion will
sometimes leave stray factors of log(10) hanging around. Oh well.

hth
Robert Dodier