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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="UNCONFIRMED - Power inside of absolute value instead of outside"
   href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116588">116588</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Power inside of absolute value instead of outside
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>LibreOffice
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>5.4.6.2 release
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>UNCONFIRMED
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Formula Editor
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>qr97apzay5az@opayq.com
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        <pre>When writing this:

abs{ z } ^ 2

It is shown as:
| z² |

However, that is of course not what I wrote. It should be shown as:
|z|²

(also happens with other numbers/variables, not only 2. Just sued for
demonstration purposes here.)

A workaround is to write:
{abs{ z }} ^ 2

But IMHO this is not intended. If I want to have the power inside of the
absolute number, I'd write it like that:
abs{ z ^ 2 }

And if you say it makes no difference mathematically, you are wrong. For real
numbers, maybe, but not for complex ones e.g., where the "absolute number" has
a different definition.

On Fedora 27 with v5.4.6.2-3.fc27 here.</pre>
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