Thks geovanni - quite an experience user....I ll watch on your post...we have
to accept some imperfections....anyway nobody or nothing is perfect....for
sure they got your point (from elementary students and onwards)...
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"Bright minds are blessed to those who share them.."-rsb.


"jim sturtz" wrote:

actually that is right. any negative number to raised to an 'even' power is
going to be positive.

"Giovanni Ciriani" <Giovanni wrote in
message ...
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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