The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1401 or 1401?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1401?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1401| = ?
The absolute value of 1401 is the distance between 1401 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1401:

Since the distance between 1401 and 0 on a number line is 1401, we get the answer as follows:
|1401| = 1401
Note that the absolute value of 1401 can also be written as abs(1401) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1402
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