The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1843 or 1843?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1843?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1843| = ?
The absolute value of 1843 is the distance between 1843 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1843:

Since the distance between 1843 and 0 on a number line is 1843, we get the answer as follows:
|1843| = 1843
Note that the absolute value of 1843 can also be written as abs(1843) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1844
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