I edited my comment before you posted your comment. You’re right.

If you multiply a negative number with a negative number you get a positive number.

Edit: Sorry, misread your comment, I clearly didn’t get enough sleep. In printed mathematics, the unary minus sign has a lower precedence than the exponent, but in programming, it’s the other way around, with the unary minus being applied first. So your right in printed mathematics, but wrong in programming.