{"id":4699,"date":"2020-09-03T14:35:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2020-09-03T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:06:00","slug":"python-abs-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/python-abs-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Python abs() Function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the reasons for the popularity of Python is its built-in functions. Python<\/a> provides a large number of built-in functions<\/a>. The is an absolute value function to find the Python abs Function of any number. While working with distance calculations we always need a positive number. As distance is always positive. Another example of the usage of absolute values is speed calculations. Let\u2019s take a look at how to use the Python abs Function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

x = -9
print(abs(x))<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The output is shown below.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Distance example<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The take a look at the distance formula. If we take the absolute value of the difference then we<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t need to take the square and then square root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

point1 = [4, 0]
point2 = [6, 6]
dist = ((point1[0]-point2[1]))+((point1[0]-point2[1]))print(dist)
print(abs(dist))<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The output is as follows.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Complex number examples<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To find the magnitude of a complex number absolute value function can be used. Let\u2019s take a look at an example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

complex_num = 5 – 5j
print(complex_num)
print(abs(complex_num))

complex_num2 = 7 + 4j
print(complex_num2)
print( abs(complex_num2))<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of the reasons for the popularity of Python is its built-in functions. Python provides a large number of built-in functions. The is an absolute value function to find the Python abs Function of any number. While working with distance calculations we always need a positive number. As distance is always positive. Another example of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[500],"tags":[1322,1321],"class_list":["post-4699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-science-using-python-tutorials","tag-absolute-value","tag-python-abs-function"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.h2kinfosys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}