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.\"     Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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.\" Modified Mon Mar 29 22:31:13 1993, David Metcalfe
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.\" Modified 5 Jul 1996 Miguel A. Sepulveda (angel@vivaldi.princeton.edu)
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.TH ABS 3  "6 Junio 1993" "GNU" "Manual del Programador de Linux"
.SH NOMBRE
abs \- calcula el valor absoluto de un entero
.SH SINOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <stdlib.h>
.sp
.BI "int abs(int " j );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPCIÓN
La función \fBabs()\fP calcula el valor absoluto del argumento entero 
\fIj\fP.
.SH "VALOR DEVUELTO"
Devuelve el valor absoluto del argumento entero.
.SH "CONFORME A"
SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899
.SH NOTAS
Intentar tomar el valor absoluto del entero más negativo no está definido.
.SH "VÉASE TAMBIÉN"
.BR ceil "(3), " floor "(3), " fabs "(3), " labs "(3), " rint (3)