How to find the sign of a value?

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WolRon

Doing speedtests though, I see that's it's much faster to just check if the variable is greater than zero.

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starttime = MilliSecs()
For iter = 1 To 100000000
If Abs(variable) = variable
  ;variable is positive
Else
  ;variable is negative
EndIf
Next
Print MilliSecs() - starttime
starttime = MilliSecs()
For iter = 1 To 100000000
If variable > 0
  ;variable is positive
Else
  ;variable is negative
EndIf
Next
Print MilliSecs() - starttime
WaitKey()
End

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