Mathematical Functions

Numbers Sign

If you want to know if a number is positive or negative, use the Sgn function. This will return -1 if the number is negative, and 1 if the number is positive. For example,

Sgn(-214)  ' returns -1
Sgn(313.3) ' returns 1

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