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[nikolai . markov]

Could someone please explain to me how julia handles ^ operator. I'm 
confused by this:









$ julia

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   _       _ _(_)_     |  A fresh approach to technical computing

  (_)     | (_) (_)    |  Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org

   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "help()" for help.

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  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 0.3.1 (2014-09-21 21:30 UTC)

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|__/                   |  x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0



julia> -1 ^ 2

-1



julia> (-1) ^ 2

1



julia> -1 * -1

1