LyX ⇒ Trying to calculate ln(e) in LyX using Maxima

[daacosta]

Greetings, I am trying to run a rather simple math expression where the Euler number is involved inside LyX using Maxima. It goes like this:

$\log(\e)$

When I do Edit > Math > Use CAS > Maxima, it fumbles and doesn´t perform the calculations. I have tried variations of the constant e, \e, \%e, etc. and none of them worked. I resorted to a very horrible solution:

1. I calculated \exp(1) in LyX using Maxima and it returned e... Since I am apprehensive I also did float\(exp(1)) and it gave me 2.718281828459045 making me happy...
2. Having convinced myself that \exp(1) is indeed Euler's number I boldly calculated \log(\exp(1)) and got 1... Yay!

I would like to know if there's a better way to write this in LyX and make it ready for Maxima to compute it... Funny thing is that I did \log(e) in Octave and it calculated the result as if nothing...

Compiling the document the pdf will show log(exp(1))=1 and that's horrible... It would be great if it were log(e)=1...