What does (−2)² mean?
Answered by a seventeen-year-old boy on Quora: 4. One thing to note, (−2)² is not the same as −2². We can write −2² as −(2²) which becomes −(4) = −4.
Answered by a seventeen-year-old boy on Quora: 4. One thing to note, (−2)² is not the same as −2². We can write −2² as −(2²) which becomes −(4) = −4.