The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1643 or 1643?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1643?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1643| = ?
The absolute value of 1643 is the distance between 1643 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1643:

Since the distance between 1643 and 0 on a number line is 1643, we get the answer as follows:
|1643| = 1643
Note that the absolute value of 1643 can also be written as abs(1643) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1644
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