On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Max <abonnements@revolwear.com> wrote:

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I'm trying to get [pow 2] from -0.019022952498528478.
because it is negative, [pow 2] will just return 0 unfortunately.
IOhannes suggested in a thread from 2013 to use
[expr pow($f1, 2)] instead.
This returns 0.000361872

however, in Python and my on-screen pocket calculator I get
- -0.019022952498528478**2
- -0.0003618727217612709

so apart from the 32 bit float, shouldn't the result be negative?

As far as the math is concerned, when you multiply two negative numbers, you get a positive, right? why expect a negative then? Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, dunno...