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<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>[abs] will give you always positive.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>This will give you always negative:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>[abs]</div><div>|</div><div>[* -1]</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div><div>On Mar 11, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Ben Carney wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">thank you thank you PD list.(in particular, Claude) I am constantly amazed by this community. <div>You couldn't get better support if you paid for it.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>for my next question...</div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>is there a object that performs the opposite of [abs]?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>[abs] can give me 15 when i have -15, for example, but I would like to get -15 when I have 15.</div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>any ideas?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>thanks so much</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Ben C.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:PD-list@iem.at">PD-list@iem.at</a> mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Mistrust authority - promote decentralization. - the hacker ethic</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>