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SIGNUM
Sign
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Description
The block output is a vector of the signs of the elements of the input vector. For each input vector's element, the output vector's element is:
- 1 when the element is greater than zero. 
- 0 when the element is equal to zero. 
- -1 when the element is less than zero. 
Dialog box

- Use zero_crossing - Select to enable zero crossing detection. - Properties : Type 'vec' of size 1 
Default properties
- always active: no 
- direct-feedthrough: yes 
- zero-crossing: yes 
- mode: yes 
- regular inputs: - - port 1 : size [-1,1] / type 1 
- regular outputs: - - port 1 : size [-1,1] / type 1 
- number/sizes of activation inputs: 0 
- number/sizes of activation outputs: 0 
- continuous-time state: no 
- discrete-time state: no 
- object discrete-time state: no 
- name of computational function: signum 
Interfacing function
- SCI/modules/scicos_blocks/macros/NonLinear/SIGNUM.sci 
Computational function
- SCI/modules/scicos_blocks/src/c/signum.c (Type 4) 
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