The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1015 or 1015?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1015?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1015| = ?
The absolute value of 1015 is the distance between 1015 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1015:

Since the distance between 1015 and 0 on a number line is 1015, we get the answer as follows:
|1015| = 1015
Note that the absolute value of 1015 can also be written as abs(1015) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1016
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