Topic: To get a neg number

[ronjonp]

there is so much I don't know 

[CAB]

Anyone want a guarantee?

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(-(abs num))

[David Bethel]

Or:

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(min n (- n))

[Daniel J. Ellis]

Yeah, the more you know, the more you know you don't know......  :ugly:

Funilly enough, I remember Donald Rumsfeld being mocked for making the same point:

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld