Absolute

Block Group:	Number Formatting
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The Absolute block returns the absolute value of a number.

For information on using dataflow blocks, see Dataflow.

For accepted and excluded arguments of Number Formatting blocks, see Number Formatting.

The following property of the Absolute block can take input and give output.

• input (number)

input specifies the number for which to calculate absolute value.

The following property of the Absolute block can give output but cannot take input.

• output (number)

output returns the absolute value of input.

• Numbers, logical values, and numbers represented as strings are accepted.
• Error values, and text that cannot be resolved to numbers, cause a “NaN” error result to be returned.

The following image shows two examples of the Absolute block.