>>>>it's simple
>>>>
>>>>Algebra: -4
>>>>Computer : 4
>>>
>>>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)
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>Hehe. Do you have a fortran compiler? I never looked it after university.

No, I do not - last time I looked at fortran must be close to 30 years ago
But I'm sure there must be a couple that are free to download