Would it make sense if `log(x, base)` took a default value of `E` for `base` so as to make `log(x)` ...

# stdlib

[Klitos Kyriacou]

Would it make sense if log(x, base) took a default value of E for base so as to make log(x) work just as it does in Java, C, and most other languages, instead of requiring the base to be explicitly passed? It would also form a counterpart of exp(x) which already implicitly uses a base of E.

[ilya.gorbunov]

For common bases we provide log10, log2, and ln (base E) functions.

[ilya.gorbunov]

I don't think it's correct to say that exp(x) uses E base implicitly because there's no way to make it use other base explicitly. There's pow function for raising to the power of arbitrary bases.

[Klitos Kyriacou]

Thanks, I had forgotten about the ln function.