The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8186 or -8186?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8186?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8186| = ?
The absolute value of -8186 is the distance between -8186 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8186:

Since the distance between -8186 and 0 on a number line is 8186, we get the answer as follows:
|-8186| = 8186
Note that the absolute value of -8186 can also be written as abs(-8186) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8185
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