I did in another sub-thread. Dana was familiar with it already.

If you lead off with a negative sign it uses the negative value inside the
exponentiation.
So, instead of =-5^2 equalling -25 it equals 25.
but, =0-5^2 is calculated correctly as -25 even though it's mathematically
the same.



"JE McGimpsey" wrote in message
...
Then you need to disclose what you think the bug *is*...

In article ,
"fred" wrote:

I'd really like to find out if this issue is on the list to be fixed, or
if
it's some sort of "beginner user" *feature*.