how to make negative numbers into positive

Question

I am having the negative floating point number as:

a = -0.340515;

to convert this into positive number I used the abs() method as:

Answer 1

this is the only way i can think of doing it.

//positive to minus
int a = 5; // starting with 5 to become -5
int b = int a * 2; // b = 10
int c = a - b; // c = - 5;
std::cout << c << endl;
//outputs - 5


 //minus to positive
int a = -5; starting with -5 to become 5
int b = a * 2; 
// b = -10
int c = a + b 
// c = 5
std::cout << c << endl;
//outputs 5

Function examples

int b = 0;
int c = 0;


int positiveToNegative (int a) {
    int b = a * 2;
    int c = a - b;
    return c;
}

int negativeToPositive (int a) { 
    int b = a * 2;
    int c = a + b;
    return c; 
}