abs

 

 

Description

The abs function returns the absolute value of its argument.

When to use

The abs function is used to compute the absolute value of a number.

 

Syntax

(abs num)

Name Description AIS Types
numA NumberNumber

Returns:

The absolute value of the Number

 

Examples

Here are a number of links to Lambda coding examples which contain this instruction in various use cases.

Example_Number_abs_001

The abs function returns the absolute of all the numbers in the argument list.

 

Argument Types

Here are the links to the data types of the function arguments.

Number Integer

Here are also a number of links to functions having arguments with any of these data types.

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