The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1256 or 1256?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1256?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1256| = ?
The absolute value of 1256 is the distance between 1256 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1256:
Since the distance between 1256 and 0 on a number line is 1256, we get the answer as follows:
|1256| = 1256
Note that the absolute value of 1256 can also be written as abs(1256) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
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