The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1652 or 1652?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1652?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1652| = ?
The absolute value of 1652 is the distance between 1652 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1652:

Since the distance between 1652 and 0 on a number line is 1652, we get the answer as follows:
|1652| = 1652
Note that the absolute value of 1652 can also be written as abs(1652) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1653
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