How to calculate the Percent Difference (not Change) of a negative and positive number?

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The numbers are -4.02 and 3.63. The standard Percent Difference formula $$|x-y|/((x+y)/2)$$ does not work for negative numbers.

I have also used various forms that include taking the abs of individual numbers and nothing has worked.

So to get to the title of the post, how would one calculate the percent difference of these two numbers?