The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1012 or 1012?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1012?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1012| = ?
The absolute value of 1012 is the distance between 1012 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1012:

Since the distance between 1012 and 0 on a number line is 1012, we get the answer as follows:
|1012| = 1012
Note that the absolute value of 1012 can also be written as abs(1012) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1013
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