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Problem 43738. Negative without '-'

Created by JD
Appears in MATLAB Fundamentals - Programming Constructs

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Simple: return a negative number without using the '-' sign.
Thanks to Problem 813 for help with test suite.

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Last Solution submitted on Mar 04, 2025

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Nikolaos Nikolaou on 7 Oct 2020

this is still true while the only diff is this is a badge problem now . Please fix

goc3 on 8 Oct 2020

The offending line—asserting lack of '0'—has been commented out.

Nikolaos Nikolaou on 16 Oct 2020

Thanks goc :)

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