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LESSON 92 OF 677 · CONDITIONAL STATEMENTS - CHALLENGES

Recreating the abs() function

Practice

The abs() function returns the absolute value of a number. This means that it returns a number's positive value. You can think of it as the distance away from zero.

Create your own function abs() that recreates this functionality.

Examples:

abs(-12) ➞ 12

abs(-544) ➞ 544

abs(250) ➞ 250

abs(0) ➞ 0

abs(-14) ➞ 14

Note:

Do not use the abs() function provided by Scala (it will defeat the purpose of the challenge)


Hints:


You can make use of < operator with an if statement to check if n is negative.

You can add an else statement to handle the case when n is positive.
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