Question

Write a program to print the absolute difference between the two given numbers. (Absolute difference is the difference without the negative sign)

Answer 1

#function to return the Absolute difference
def absDiff(a,b):
    return abs(a)-abs(b)

#test runs    
print(absDiff(-1,3)) #-2
print(absDiff(-1,-3)) #-2
print(absDiff(1,3)) #-2
print(absDiff(-5,3)) #2