BIGINT UNSIGNED value is out of range

Question

I am getting the error

BIGINT UNSIGNED value is out of range in \'(1301980250 - mydb.news_articles.date)\'

Answer 1

I recently ran into this and found the most reasonable solution to simply cast any UNSIGNED ints as SIGNED.

 SELECT *, ((1 / log(1301980250 - cast(date as signed)) * 175) as weight FROM news_articles ORDER BY weight