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word for bringing a number to its absolute value

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00:00 Word For Bringing A Number To Its Absolute Value
00:15 Accepted Answer Score 7
00:27 Answer 2 Score 4
00:42 Thank you

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 7


|n| is called taking its magnitude. That is the value without the sign, if you would.




ANSWER 2

Score 4


It’s hard to say without having a context, but you might be able to use unsigned, as in Compute the absolute difference between unsigned integers using sse.

You can also just talk about ignoring the sign.