Visual Basic - Additive inverse: -

Operator negative sign is used to change the sign of expressions. it works as a negation: if the expression value is positive then the result will be negative, and if the expression is negative then the result will be positive.

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Description

- expression

Used keywords: -

Input

expression - Any number

Output

Result - Numbers

Examples

Visual Basic .NET

Additive inverse the possible of use:

xmin = -32768
 ymax = 32767
Dim x As short= -1234        ' x = -1234
Dim y As short= -(1500 mod 60)' y = -25
y = CShort((x * y))    ' z = 30850

Visual Basic .NET

Other pieces of example codes:

Dim x As integer= -12345

Dim x As sbyte= -5

Dim x As long= -82345

You can find it in the following collections: arithmetic operators

Additive inverse in another programming language: