I can see this is going to be fun!
OK then, 5 - 5 != -5
Is anyone capable of providing some advice on the syntax I should be looking
at? I'm guessing there must be some simple code that will return the
negative of a value using the unary operator -
I'm sure that a lot of people here are capable of writing your code,
and I'll bet that you are, too.
My advice is to step away from the computer, grab a piece of paper and
a pencil, and figure out how you would do it without the use of a
computer. Once you figure out the method, or algorithm, I'm sure that
you will see that writing the actual code is easy.
The most important thing in programming is not the hardware, or the
compiler, or even the language. The most important thing is that gray
squishy thing between your ears.