The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1594 or 1594?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1594?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1594| = ?
The absolute value of 1594 is the distance between 1594 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1594:

Since the distance between 1594 and 0 on a number line is 1594, we get the answer as follows:
|1594| = 1594
Note that the absolute value of 1594 can also be written as abs(1594) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1595
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