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Return the result of applying the unary negation (`‐`) operator to the specified `value` as described by IEEE‐754. Note that decimal floating point representations can encode signed zero values, thus negating 0 results in ‐0 and negating ‐0 results in 0.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdldfp_decimalimputil.h>`

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negate(xref:BloombergLP/bdldfp/DecimalImpUtil/ValueType32.adoc[ValueType32] value);
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