Transcendent Integer Negation

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An expanding-brain meme is split into four horizontal rows, with code-like expressions on the left and progressively more illuminated brain images on the right. The rows read "i = i * -1", "i = i - 2*i", "i = ("-" + i.tostring).toint", and finally "i = in't" in very large bold text. The technical joke is about taking a simple operation, negating an integer, and escalating it through algebraic overwork, string conversion, and finally a pun on "int." It satirizes clever-looking but unreadable code that replaces a straightforward expression with novelty for its own sake.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The third line allocates a string just to flip a sign, which is how you know the fourth line is the real performance optimization.

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The third line allocates a string just to flip a sign, which is how you know the fourth line is the real performance optimization.
@sylfn 4y

x = (x ^ -1) + 1
@RiedleroD 4y

i=-i;
1. @zherud 4y
  
  That's the 1st one
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  nah not exactly
  
  @zherud 4y
  
  - is a prefix function that returns -1*i. So it's the same with 1 more step
@Araalith 4y

Perl: $i =~s/^/-/;
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

i = (int)((uint)(i ^ 0xFFFFFFFF) & 0x80000000);
@cotoha_1 4y

just yell at it...
@scout_ca11sign 4y

i*=-1
Deleted Account 4y

j = 0 - i; i = 0 + j;
@RiedleroD 4y

i = -(2*i-(i - i*2))
@sylfn 4y

i = sqrt(-1)
1. @RiedleroD 4y
  
  bug report: only works if i==NaN
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  bug report: NaN != NaN
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  bug report: that's javascript
@sylfn 4y

i = (opposite_sign(i)) * i; where int opposite_sign(int x) { return x > 0 ? -1 : 1; }
@mrybs1 4y

i=-i Easy-peasy
1. @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  i-=i--i
@vimlover 4y

i=√-1
1. @mrybs1 4y
  
  Вы посмотрите на этого гения мысли
2. Deleted Account 4y
  
  i² = -1
@mrybs1 4y

Pardon
@BoxCollider2D 2y

i *= -1;

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Transcendent Integer Negation

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