Bug 50596 - "-" takes precedence over "^" contradictory to the mathematical convention.
Summary: "-" takes precedence over "^" contradictory to the mathematical convention.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 94568
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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Hardware: Other All
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Reported: 2012-06-01 10:58 UTC by Iddo
Modified: 2020-08-31 12:05 UTC (History)
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Description Iddo 2012-06-01 10:58:26 UTC 
When entering "=-3^2" I receive a result of "9". It should be "-9" as the power operator takes precedence over the minus operator, even when the minus operator is unary. 

See: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Arithmetic/Order_of_Operations
This bug appears to be "inherited" from MS-Excel for conformity? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q132686/
Comment 1 Markus Mohrhard 2012-06-18 09:09:31 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 44076 ***
Comment 2 mwelinder 2018-11-13 19:25:52 UTC 
Fixing dupe reference.  This bug is about parsing, not semantics.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 94568 ***