Calculate Exponentials Properly (right To Left)

It undoubtedly would, but don't hold your breath. Doing so would break
tens of thousands of existing applications.

It would also make exponentiation the only operator that worked
right-to-left. That alone would make things extremely confusing for
non-structural-engineers.

Operator precedence and direction of application is neither correct nor
incorrect - it's convention. And scientific convention is not the
convention that Excel was designed for. A frequent example is

-x^(2*n)

XL will always calculate this as a positive number (for integer n's)
since negation has a higher precedence than exponentiation. This seems
counterintuitive to most of those that have commented on it in these
groups. But it's consistent with XL's published specs.

In article <D8D7DD4E-D595-47A3-8770-AAFEF5C38048@microsoft.com>,
"expatrie" <expatrie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> It would also make using the program easier for structural engineers
> like me.