❇ Order of Numeric Operations 🆕 Negative Exponents

Order of Numeric Operations

Was:

• Innermost operations between parentheses
• Exponentiation
• Negation
• Multiplication, Division
• Integer Division
• Modulo
• Addition and Subtraction

Now is:

• Innermost operations between parentheses
• Exponentiation
• Negation
• Multiplication, Division, Integer Division, Modulo
• Addition and Subtraction

Negative Exponents

Negative exponents (for example: 5 ^ -2) would cause a program to abort with an error.

Now, BASIC Anywhere Machine knows how to handle negation of the exponent.