The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1660 or 1660?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1660?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1660| = ?
The absolute value of 1660 is the distance between 1660 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1660:

Since the distance between 1660 and 0 on a number line is 1660, we get the answer as follows:
|1660| = 1660
Note that the absolute value of 1660 can also be written as abs(1660) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1661
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