On 2/22/2011 5:56 PM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote: > Thanks for your report. > The power operator has the highest precedence over all the binary (+,-,*,/) > and unary (negative and positive signs) operators. So the negative sign will > be applied after the power operation. > > For example -3^2 = -(3*3) = -9 and it is not mean to be -3*-3 = 9 > > If you want the later you should use parenthesis to change the precedence > like: (-3)^2 > In your example the result you want is: (-10)¹² > > I'm closing this report because it is not a bug but the expected > behavior. > > ** Changed in: gcalctool (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Invalid > Yeah I'm sorry when I filed the bug I wasn't thinking of that by the time i figured it out it was too late
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