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Wednesday June 25, 2008
09:41 AM
Absolute value (verb)
What's the verb for "taking the absolute value of," if there is such a word? I'm persnickety about getting my functions named right, and moreso because this one is mathematical.
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abs of real (Score:0)
I'm not sure whether there is a single-word verb for that. It's a noun (aka "modulus"), and normally it's called
absin programming, anyway.What's the verb for "taking the square root of"? For "taking the sine of"?
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Rooting and sinning? ;->