The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1049 or 1049?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1049?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1049| = ?
The absolute value of 1049 is the distance between 1049 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1049:

Since the distance between 1049 and 0 on a number line is 1049, we get the answer as follows:
|1049| = 1049
Note that the absolute value of 1049 can also be written as abs(1049) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1050
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