Two different expression result in c# and excel

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I find something really weird, if I used below expression in excel and c# I get different results.

(1) ^ (-12)

Excel gives 1 and c# gives -11.

Which one is right one?

Posted 24-Apr-13 9:48am

mayankkarki

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-24T09:55:00

Solution 1

They are really different. It's no wonder that different expressions give different results, is it? :-)

As different expressions, they are both "right", why not? In Excel, '^' means "power", in C#, it means "exclusive OR" (XOR). Please see:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/calculation-operators-and-precedence-HP010078886.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zkacc7k1.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6a71f45d.aspx[^].

—SA

Posted 24-Apr-13 9:55am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 24-Apr-13 11:10am

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Comments

Maciej Los 24-Apr-13 17:06pm

Short and to the point!
+5

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Apr-13 17:09pm

Thank you Maciej. I was trying hard for you to like it. :-)
—SA

Maciej Los 24-Apr-13 17:16pm

Don't do it for me, but for OP ;)
I like it anyway ;)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Apr-13 17:25pm

:-)