The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1606 or 1606?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1606?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1606| = ?
The absolute value of 1606 is the distance between 1606 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1606:

Since the distance between 1606 and 0 on a number line is 1606, we get the answer as follows:
|1606| = 1606
Note that the absolute value of 1606 can also be written as abs(1606) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1607
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