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Re: Absolute

• Posted by "Carl R. White" <cyrek at BIGFOOT.COM> Jun 12, 2000
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On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 12:16:50 +1000, Aidan Bindoff <abindoff at ONE.NET.AU>
wrote:

>I, for one, will only be using the absolute() function [Lucius] suggested
>from now on. I'm interested to know if you could suggest any more.

The 'sequence-magic' abs() function is:

function abs(object x)
    -- The bit in the outer brackets is normally in the function "sgn()"
    return x * ( (x>0)-(x<0) )
end function

This works for anything you want to throw at it. The downside is that it's
3-4 times slower than the atom-only version when you use it on atoms.

Carl - Sequence magic intermediate 

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