"Tom Ogilvy" wrote...
Precedence of operations is stated in the help. As far as I know, there is
no universally accepted order of precedence that covers all combinations
and
permutations.
....

Somewhat of a tangent. APL and its descendants (APL2, J and K) have sepaate
tokens for numeric sign and minus operator. The numeric sign character is
part of the number token, so effectively always binds tighter than any other
token or operator. Evaluation is always right to left, so different results
are produced when using the sign character vs the minus operator followed by
a number raised to an even power. Excel treats unary minus like APL's sign
character rather than like APL's unary ('monadic') minus. This is unlike
most other programming languages that use the same character to represent
signs in numeric tokens and unary and 'diadic' minus.