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Excel 2003 SP2 computes the power of a negative number wrong.
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Mike Middleton
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Excel 2003 SP2 computes the power of a negative number wrong.
Giovanni Ciriani -
See Excel Help "About calculation operators."
Negation is performed before exponentiation.
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A1 contains -4.
B1 contains the expression -A1^4
The result is supposed to be -256, but instead it is 256.
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