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minus-squareFat Tony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoMy calculator says -2² = -4, so yeah…
minus-squareUltraviolet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoI would never write -n². Either ‐(n²) or (-n)². Order of operations shouldn’t be some sort of gotcha to trick people into misinterpreting you, it’s the intuitive reading of a well constructed mathematical expression.
minus-square💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year ago Either ‐(n²) or (-n)². Order of operations shouldn’t be some sort of gotcha to trick people into misinterpreting you It isn’t. With ‐(n²), n² is already a single term, so the brackets aren’t needed.
minus-square💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year ago My calculator says -2² = -4 That’s correct
My calculator says -2² = -4, so yeah…
I would never write -n². Either ‐(n²) or (-n)². Order of operations shouldn’t be some sort of gotcha to trick people into misinterpreting you, it’s the intuitive reading of a well constructed mathematical expression.
It isn’t. With ‐(n²), n² is already a single term, so the brackets aren’t needed.
That’s correct