The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1212 or 1212?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1212?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1212| = ?
The absolute value of 1212 is the distance between 1212 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1212:

Since the distance between 1212 and 0 on a number line is 1212, we get the answer as follows:
|1212| = 1212
Note that the absolute value of 1212 can also be written as abs(1212) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1213
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