/span><a href="dec.html"><span class="token function">dec</span></a><span class="token punctuation">(</span><span class="token punctuation">)</span><span class="token operator">: </span><a href="index.html">NegativeInt</a></div><div class="brief "><p class="paragraph">Returns this <a href="value.html">value</a> decremented by <code class="lang-kotlin">1</code>. If this <a href="value.html">value</a> is the <a href="-companion/min.html">minimum</a>, it returns the <a href="-companion/max.html">maximum</a> va