clojure.core/-

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Type: function Added: Clojure 1.2 Examples: 2 Runnable: 1

([x] [x y] [x y & more])

If no ys are supplied, returns the negation of x, else subtracts the ys from x and returns the result. Does not auto-promote longs, will throw on overflow. See also: -'

Examples

by MrHus on 2010-07-18 ▶

(- 1) -1 (- 6 3) 3 (- 10 3 2) 5

by phreed on 2014-10-09 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

(- 0 9000000000000000000 1000000000000000000) ;; ArithmeticException: integer overflow (-' 0 9000000000000000000 1000000000000000000) ;;=> 10000000000000000000N

See also

• clojure.core/-'
• clojure.core/unchecked-negate
• clojure.core/unchecked-subtract
• clojure.core/dec

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