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gmp_abs

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

gmp_absAbsolute value


Description

gmp_abs ( GMP $a ) : GMP

Get the absolute value of a number.


Parameters

a
Either a GMP number resource in PHP 5.5 and earlier, a GMP object in PHP 5.6 and later, or a numeric string provided that it is possible to convert the latter to a number.


Return Values

Returns the absolute value of a, as a GMP number.


Examples

Example #1 gmp_abs() example

<?php$abs1 = gmp_abs("274982683358");$abs2 = gmp_abs("-274982683358");echo gmp_strval($abs1) . "\n";echo gmp_strval($abs2) . "\n";?>

The above example will output:


274982683358
274982683358