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Negative numbers with exponents in RPN
01-27-2021, 07:57 PM (This post was last modified: 01-27-2021 07:59 PM by ijabbott.)
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RE: Negative numbers with exponents in RPN
It helps to think in RPN:

+/- negates the number in stack position 1

x^2 squares the number in stack position 1

Obviously, the answer depends on the order in which those operations are applied.
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