The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1013 or 1013?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1013?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1013| = ?
The absolute value of 1013 is the distance between 1013 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1013:

Since the distance between 1013 and 0 on a number line is 1013, we get the answer as follows:
|1013| = 1013
Note that the absolute value of 1013 can also be written as abs(1013) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1014
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