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You can't. A number is not something you can change. A number just is.

Take a nice number like (-2). (-2) Is now, always has been, and always will be a negative number. You can use it in mathematical expressions like (-2)*(-3), (which evaluates to a positive number, by the way), but nothing you can ever do or say will change what (-2) means.

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To change a negative number into a positive number, you can simply remove the negative sign. For example, if you have -3, removing the negative sign would give you 3, which is the positive form of the number.

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