It undoubtedly would, but don't hold your breath. Doing so would break
tens of thousands of existing applications.

It would also make exponentiation the only operator that worked
right-to-left. That alone would make things extremely confusing for
non-structural-engineers.

Operator precedence and direction of application is neither correct nor
incorrect - it's convention. And scientific convention is not the
convention that Excel was designed for. A frequent example is

-x^(2*n)

XL will always calculate this as a positive number (for integer n's)
since negation has a higher precedence than exponentiation. This seems
counterintuitive to most of those that have commented on it in these
groups. But it's consistent with XL's published specs.

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"expatrie" wrote:

It would also make using the program easier for structural engineers
like me.