[Tutor] a puzzle about -3**2 vs (-3)**2

[D Wyatt]

I just read in a book a little while ago that ** trumps a negative
sign?  I am struggling with the audacity of that as -1 is negative 1,
NOT minus 1.  How can an arithmetic operation trump an attribute of a
negative integer?  It truly makes no sense to me.  Thank you for any
enlightenment you can provide.

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>>> 3**2
9
>>> (-3)**2
9
>>> -3**2
-9
>>>

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Deb Wyatt in WA