The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1878 or 1878?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1878?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1878| = ?
The absolute value of 1878 is the distance between 1878 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1878:
Since the distance between 1878 and 0 on a number line is 1878, we get the answer as follows:
|1878| = 1878
Note that the absolute value of 1878 can also be written as abs(1878) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1879
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