In this post, I am sharing few mathematical operators for finding factorial, absolute and negation value in PostgreSQL.

I was reading the official the official page of PostgreSQL and found few interesting operators which we can use for the mathematical purpose.

Check below examples:

! operator for factorial:

SELECT 8 ! AS "8 factorial";

8 factorial
------------
'40320'

@ operator for absolute:

SELECT @ '-8.8' AS "absolute value";

absolute values
------------
'40320'

~ operator for negation:

SELECT ~ CAST('16' AS int8) AS "negation value";

negation value
---------------
'-17'