>>>it's simple
>>>
>>>Algebra: -4
>>>Computer : 4
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>>what about lotus 1-2-3? I'm sure fortran is -4 too. Because Fortran was an engineering language...
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>Metin,
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>(1) Fortran: It appears you are right. Unary minus has a lower precedence than exponentiontion and multiplication
>(2) Cannot comment on Lotus - seems like they do it like fortran (link you provided yesterday)

Hehe. Do you have a fortran compiler? I never looked it after university.