The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1036 or 1036?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1036?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1036| = ?
The absolute value of 1036 is the distance between 1036 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1036:

Since the distance between 1036 and 0 on a number line is 1036, we get the answer as follows:
|1036| = 1036
Note that the absolute value of 1036 can also be written as abs(1036) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1037
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