The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 644 or -644?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -644?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-644| = ?
The absolute value of -644 is the distance between -644 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -644:

Since the distance between -644 and 0 on a number line is 644, we get the answer as follows:
|-644| = 644
Note that the absolute value of -644 can also be written as abs(-644) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -643
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