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I mean in your assertion that `log` must mean `log10`. I have huge sympathy for contending with inconsistent use of ambiguous notation. My pet hate is `gamma` vs. `tgamma`.

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I wouldn't dare to suggest that, yet that's the route that physics and all derivatives have adopted!

We are essentially at the crossroad and obviously, programming, which develops nowadays a bit faster than theoretical physics or mathematics, pushes in one direction.

Well my anecdatum, as a theoretical physicist, is that people very rarely write `log` or use logarithms is bases other than e.

I had a one more look at the article, and you are right! I need to add an log(10) = 2.303 example

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