On 1/6/06, Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > hi - in version 2.1 the command > > > > >-2^2 > > > > gives > > > > -4 > > > > as the answer. (-2)^2 is evaluated correctly. > > So is -2^2. The precedence of ^ is higher than that of unary minus. It > may be surprising, but it *is* documented and has been in S for a long > time.
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