Incidentally, I mentally parse -1^2 as (-1)^2, but I parse -1² as -(1²). Reading your post I was thinking "well yeah, minus one squared is one, what else would

Incidentally, I mentally parse -1^2 as (-1)^2, but I parse -1² as -(1²). Reading your post I was thinking "well yeah, minus one squared is one, what else would it be?"