.. highlightlang:: us

.. index:: abs

.. _abs:

abs
===

.. us.tag  abs ENGLISH math-base

:ref:`abs` calculates the absolute value of its argument.

.. function::  mAbs = abs(m)

.. us.return

**Return Value**

*mAbs* is the absolute value of the matrix *m*.

.. us.params

**Parameters**

.. uparam:: m

   *m* is a real or complex matrix.

.. us.example

**Example**

::

   abs(-1)
       1.0000
   abs(1+2i)
       2.2361

.. seealso::
   :ref:`overview-mathematic`,
   :ref:`norm`

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