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Ruby program to find the absolute value of the given number

Ruby Example: Write a program to find the absolute value of the given number.
Submitted by Nidhi, on December 10, 2021

Problem Solution:

In this program, we will read a number from the user and find its absolute value using the abs() function.

Program/Source Code:

The source code to find the absolute value of the given number is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to find the 
# absolute value of the given number

print "Enter number: ";
num = gets.chomp.to_i;  

result = num.abs();  

print "Absolute value: ",result;

Output:

Enter number: -234
Absolute value: 234

Explanation:

In the above program, we read a number from the user using gets.chomp.to_i. Then we found the absolute value of a given number using the abs() function and printed the result.

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