>Alan,
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>Unary negation does have higher precedence than exponentiation! It also represents a subtraction from 0.
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>You can't believe everything you read on the internet.

Even from a math professor? Besides, this agrees with everything else I've read. A unary operator is not the same as a subtraction operator. To the best of my knowledge, the only places where unary operators take precedence over exponentiation is in Excel, VFP - places like that.

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>>No David. In normal math, the unary operator does not have precedence because it actually represents a multiplication by -1. In other words, -2**2 is the same as saying -1*2**2 and since exponentiation takes precedence over multiplication, the correct answer is -4. For the record, I thought it was 4 at first too.
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>>Check this out: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/69058.html