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Default Order of oprerations error?

And in Excel 2003
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David Biddulph

trip_to_tokyo wrote:
In EXCEL 2007 the result I get is:-

-45

Please hit Yes if my comments have helped.

"Marty F Humboldt" wrote:

Why does -5*3^2 give 45 for a result? Shouldn't this be -45?
I thought this would be fixed in 2007 version- the 2003 version did
the same.