Is there an equation, that will return either 1 if a variable is positive, or 0 if the variable is negative.
For example, to see if an integer is odd or even you can use:
$r=\frac{(-1)^n+1}{2}$
where $r$ will be $1$ if $n$ is even, and $r$ will be $0$ if $n$ is odd.
So is there a similar equation, to see if $n$ is positive or negative?
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