The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1683 or 1683?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1683?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1683| = ?
The absolute value of 1683 is the distance between 1683 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1683:

Since the distance between 1683 and 0 on a number line is 1683, we get the answer as follows:
|1683| = 1683
Note that the absolute value of 1683 can also be written as abs(1683) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1684
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