I just made the areas in question Bold RED. Minor bug. There was an ^ that worked, though. ODD.
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Here are the variences explained:
http://zonalandeducation.com/mmts/expressions/raiseToAPower.html
I seem to remember finding this "bug" in Excel many years ago and argued it the right way. This time I checked in Excel, hoping they would have gotten it right, but it from Microsoft and that should have raised a flag. I ended up chasing my tail for checking first using the wrong reference.
BIG OOPS.
PS: I did tell you that I use parenthesis: such as (-1)^3
Time for some cookies?
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Thank you very much for that, KISS. And I'm just going to post a quote from it, so that it's easier to find:
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Here is a harder one to understand:
-42
Now, the negative sign out front must wait till the raise to a power operation is finished. So, four raised to the second power is sixteen, since four times four is sixteen. After that evaluation the negative sign accepts the value of sixteen as an operand and produces a value of negative sixteen. Therefore, we can write:
-16 = -42
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The post: https://www.electro-tech-online.com/threads/maths-q.123050/#post1016927
The Notice:
Dear KeepItSimpleStupid,
DerStrom8 has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - Maths Q - in the Members Lounge forum of Electronic Circuits Projects Diagrams Free.
This thread is located at:
https://www.electro-tech-online.com/threads/maths-q.123050/
Here is the message that has just been posted:
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---Quote (Originally by KeepItSimpleStupid)---
Here are the variences explained:http://zonalandeducation.com/mmts/expressions/raiseToAPower.html
I seem to remember finding this "bug" in Excel many years ago and argued it the right way. This time I checked in Excel, hoping they would have gotten it right, but it from Microsoft and that should have raised a flag. I ended up chasing my tail for checking first using the wrong reference.
BIG OOPS.
PS: I did tell you that I use parenthesis: such as (-1)^3
Time for some cookies?
---End Quote---
Thank you very much for that, KISS. And I'm just going to post a quote from it, so that it's easier to find:
---Quote---
Here is a harder one to understand:
-42
Now, the negative sign out front must wait till the raise to a power operation is finished. So, four raised to the second power is sixteen, since four times four is sixteen. After that evaluation the negative sign accepts the value of sixteen as an operand and produces a value of negative sixteen. Therefore, we can write:
-16 = -42
---End Quote---
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