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| author | pkoppstein <pkoppstein@gmail.com> | 2023-07-24 23:25:42 -0400 |
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| committer | Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> | 2023-07-25 23:43:57 -0500 |
| commit | 7b725378b9803a1df74054ebd3d700d9daeb2049 (patch) | |
| tree | fd279b6868d12ca5b79e97989eb8439d1d7608cb /docs | |
| parent | 3a1ba0c42d2deb80b3f94b7993c7096cfe33b3bb (diff) | |
builtin.jq: naive abs/0
manual.yml explains that the def is naive, and mentions fabs, etc.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/content/manual/manual.yml | 15 |
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diff --git a/docs/content/manual/manual.yml b/docs/content/manual/manual.yml index ae9a8498..7f28150d 100644 --- a/docs/content/manual/manual.yml +++ b/docs/content/manual/manual.yml @@ -850,6 +850,21 @@ sections: input: '[1,0,-1]' output: ['1', '-1'] + - title: "`abs`" + body: | + + The builtin function `abs` is defined naively as: `if . < 0 then - . else . end`. + + For numeric input, this is the absolute value. See the + section on the identity filter for the implications of this + definition for numeric input. + + To compute the absolute value of a number as a floating point number, you may wish use `fabs`. + + examples: + - program: 'map(abs)' + input: '[-10, -1.1, -1e-1, 1000000000000000002, -1000000000000000002]' + output: ['[10,1.1,1e-1,10000000000000002,1e+18]'] - title: "`length`" body: | |