The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1679 or 1679?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1679?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1679| = ?
The absolute value of 1679 is the distance between 1679 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1679:

Since the distance between 1679 and 0 on a number line is 1679, we get the answer as follows:
|1679| = 1679
Note that the absolute value of 1679 can also be written as abs(1679) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1680
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