Re: Absolute
- Posted by "Darth Maul, aka Matt" <Uglyfish87 at HOTMAIL.COM> Jun 17, 2000
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:39:32 -0400, Carl R. White <cyrek at BIGFOOT.COM> wrote:
>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
Or you could use something I saw a while ago...
function abs(atom x)
return sqrt(x * x)
end function
I always use it, and it's served me well
