How to do a negative exponent

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x=sym(x)

octave:2> f = ((e^x + e^-x)/2)^2 - ((e^x - e^-x)/2)^2 
error: subscript indices must be either positive integers or logicals

I think I understand the error msg 
but is there a good way around a negative exponent ?




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