math.nroot [was Re: A brief question.]

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Tom Anderson wrote:

> Yes. However, it's an excellent reason why python's precedence
> rules are wrong - in conventional mathematical notation, the unary
> minus, used to denote the sign of a literal number, does indeed
> have higher precedence than exponentiation: -1^2 evaluates to 1,
> not -1. 

    	This isn't true.  The "unary minus operator" is just a shorthand 
for multiplication by -1.  As such, it has the same operator precedence 
as multiplication.

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