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Well, that depends....
According to mathforum.org
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/55709.html
-- "If you ever see the expression -3^2 evaluated as 9, that's incorrect. The exponentiation is always done before the negation unless there are parentheses there to indicate otherwise. The bottom line is that -a^b is always evaluated as:
-(a^b)."--
In other words: -3^2 = -9 (negative), while (-3)^2 = 9 (positive)
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