The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1822 or 1822?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1822?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1822| = ?
The absolute value of 1822 is the distance between 1822 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1822:

Since the distance between 1822 and 0 on a number line is 1822, we get the answer as follows:
|1822| = 1822
Note that the absolute value of 1822 can also be written as abs(1822) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1823
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