The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1653 or 1653?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1653?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1653| = ?
The absolute value of 1653 is the distance between 1653 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1653:

Since the distance between 1653 and 0 on a number line is 1653, we get the answer as follows:
|1653| = 1653
Note that the absolute value of 1653 can also be written as abs(1653) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1654
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