>From the bc man page: The expression precedence is as follows: (lowest to highest) || operator, left associative && operator, left associative ! operator, nonassociative Relational operators, left associative Assignment operator, right associative + and - operators, left associative *, / and % operators, left associative ^ operator, right associative unary - operator, nonassociative ++ and -- operators, nonassociative
Note that "unary -" has _higher_ precedence than "^". Thus "-2^2" is equivalent to "(-2)^2". "-2" represents the negative number "minus two", not the expression "0-2". -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org