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The reason is that you almost always want the negation to happen after the exponentiation, because it otherwise wouldn’t have any effect (at least when the exponent is even).
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(-27)^2/3=((-27) ^ 2) / 3-27^2/3=(-(27 ^ 2)) / 3The reason is that you almost always want the negation to happen after the exponentiation, because it otherwise wouldn’t have any effect (at least when the exponent is even).
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