Calculates the total difference between two numbers

I want it to calculate the difference between two given numbers.

[Torsten]

a = 5;
b = 3;
difference = a-b

difference = 2

Answer 1

[Guru Kumaresan]

Hi Adam,

I understand that you are trying to find the difference between two numbers. For this purpose, you can use absolute value function available in MATLAB.

Example:

a = 2; 
b = 5; 
Diff = abs(a-b); 

Diff will have the value of 3.

Hope this helps!