semantics of ** (unexpected/inconsistent?)

[Brian J Mingus]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Esmail <ebonak at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Brian J Mingus wrote:
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>> I think you answered your own question. 3**2 comes first in the order of
>> operations, followed by the negation.
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> No, that's not the problem, I'm ok with the operator precedence of - vs **
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> My problem is why I don't get the same result if I use the literal -3 or
> a variable that contains -3 (x in my example)


Yes, that is the problem. Setting x=-3 is the same as writing (-3)**2 vs.
-(3**2).
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