negative number raised to even power

[Claudio L.]

(05-05-2015 07:11 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  

(05-05-2015 06:12 PM)John Colvin Wrote:  That explains it. I knew ^ meant xor in the context of boolean operations, but that symbol is used so frequently to represent exponentiation, I just forgot about that quirk C. My bad.

And I assumed you made a clever joke.

Cheers
Thomas

I thought the same thing: I wish he hadn't clarified that it was a mistake.
(-2)^2 = -4 was the smartest thing I read in the whole thread! The way it applies to the discussion makes it an excellent joke, could've caught a lot of people off-guard.