• Limitless_screaming@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    No, you’d expect that -2^2 would equal 4, but calculators solve it as -(2)^2 not (-2)^2. But the case you mentioned is also pretty common.

    • ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      if you’ve touched polynomials ever, you’d expect the exponent to be before the negation. If you write x³-x² you don’t mean x³ + (-x)² = x³+x², you mean x³-(x²)