The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1415 or 1415?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1415?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1415| = ?
The absolute value of 1415 is the distance between 1415 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1415:

Since the distance between 1415 and 0 on a number line is 1415, we get the answer as follows:
|1415| = 1415
Note that the absolute value of 1415 can also be written as abs(1415) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1416
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