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Re: Taking into account negative numbers
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Re: Taking into account negative numbers


  • Subject: Re: Taking into account negative numbers
  • From: Simon Forster <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:16:10 +0100

On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 12:04 pm, Anthony Adachi wrote:

Does anybody know what's the best way to check to see whether a number is
negative?

-- negative numbers should not make a difference to the result.

As a quickie:

set a to -5
set b to -1

if a < 0 then set a to 0 - a
if b < 0 then set b to 0 - b

if a < b then
set theResult to b - a
else if b < a then
set theResult to a - b
else
set theResult to 0
end if

And now I sit back to see how it should be done ;-)

Simon Forster
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