Upon entering an exponent with a negative base and even power (ie -2^4) the correct answer (16) is expected,
instead speedcrunch returns - answer (-16).


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (400, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Versions of packages speedcrunch depends on:
ii  libc6              2.31-11
ii  libgcc-s1          10.2.1-6
ii  libqt5core5a       5.15.2+dfsg-5
ii  libqt5gui5         5.15.2+dfsg-5
ii  libqt5help5        5.15.2-5
ii  libqt5sql5-sqlite  5.15.2+dfsg-5
ii  libqt5widgets5     5.15.2+dfsg-5
ii  libstdc++6         10.2.1-6

speedcrunch recommends no packages.

speedcrunch suggests no packages.

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Hello Moshe,

the result is correct. Exponentiation binds closer than the negative
sign. You mean "(-2)^4" but "-2^2" equals to "-(2^4)".

I propose to close this bug.

Best regards

Jan