(-) precedence

[Thomas Okken]

(12-22-2022 03:31 AM)Sukiari Wrote:  Negative two squared is four. That’s just how it is. Don’t bother me or each other about it, Newton and Euler, both natural philosophers covered this hundreds of years ago. There is no ambiguity and planes are falling out of the sky because of crazy stuff like this.

That's contributing nothing to the conversation. The laws of mathematics are not being denied, we're talking about mathematical notation, and that is something that can be codified any way at all.

I personally find it a bit mystifying that there are people who have such a problem accepting that the standard notation gives lower precedence to minus (both unary and binary) than to exponentiation, but here we are. How the standard notation works is not up for debate, but how it should work can, of course, be debated endlessly.