[issue10061] ** operator yielding wrong result for negative numbers

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

Python's order of operations runs the exponentation before the unary minus.  This convention makes the unary minus behave more like the subtraction operator so that:  -x**n == 0 - x**n.

This convention is somewhat common but there are exceptions such as MS Excel where the unary minus binds first.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations#Examples

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