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  1. 06-01-2010, 09:50 AM #1
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    Hello
    I'm dealing with positive and negative numbers. I want just to take the number without sign because I will do some comparison so I need to do comparison without considering sign. How can I do it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by sara12345 View Post
    Hello
    I'm dealing with positive and negative numbers. I want just to take the number without sign because I will do some comparison so I need to do comparison without considering sign. How can I do it?
    thanks

    the class math has a abs() method to convert negative numbers. use it.
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    ok thanks but are the numbers must be in integer format or float
    thanks alot
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    Did you read the API docs which j2me64 has linked in one minute?! You're fast.
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    ok thanks alot for helping
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