The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1845 or 1845?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1845?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1845| = ?
The absolute value of 1845 is the distance between 1845 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1845:

Since the distance between 1845 and 0 on a number line is 1845, we get the answer as follows:
|1845| = 1845
Note that the absolute value of 1845 can also be written as abs(1845) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1846
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