[Rd] Multiplication (PR#8466)

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Thomas Lumley wrote:

>On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, casella at stat.ufl.edu wrote:
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>>hi - in version 2.1 the command
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>>>-2^2
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>>gives
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>>-4
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>>as the answer.  (-2)^2 is evaluated correctly.
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>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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> 	-thomas
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No, it's not surprising. At least to me...
In the country where I grew up, I've been teached that -x^2 means -(x^2)
not (-x)^2 ;-)

H.

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