Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:70768 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 26174 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2013 22:21:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Dec 2013 22:21:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=swhitemanlistens-software@cypressintegrated.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=swhitemanlistens-software@cypressintegrated.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain cypressintegrated.com designates 173.1.104.101 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: swhitemanlistens-software@cypressintegrated.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 173.1.104.101 rproxy2-b-iv.figureone.com Received: from [173.1.104.101] ([173.1.104.101:62698] helo=rproxy2-b-iv.figureone.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 86/2E-42949-15173B25 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 17:21:05 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([184.248.4.139]) by rproxy2-b-iv.figureone.com (Brand New Heavy v1.0) with ASMTP id EIN98358 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:20:58 -0800 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 17:07:07 -0500 Reply-To: Sanford Whiteman X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <126726944.20131219170707@cypressintegrated.com> To: Kris Craig In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-From: swhitemanlistens-software@cypressintegrated.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: power operator (again) From: swhitemanlistens-software@cypressintegrated.com (Sanford Whiteman) > I did sqr(-3) in the Windows Calculator just now and it outputted 9, > not -9. In this situation, you are forcing the order of operations based on rules of the UI and/or parentheses. That's not the same as deciding the natural associativity of the exponent. -- Sandy