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To: Chris London <me@chrislondon.co>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] rfc: pow-operator
From: kris.craig@gmail.com (Kris Craig)

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> A more appropriate example would be to say should we treat -3 ^ 2 as (-3)
> ^ 2 == 9 or as -(3 ^ 2) == -9
>
> Ok, though if we want to be completely accurate, I'd go with this:  (-3) ^
(2) == 9.  Likewise:  (1) + (-3) ^ (2) == (1) + ((-3) ^ (2)) == 10.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations

--Kris

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