The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1880 or 1880?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1880?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1880| = ?
The absolute value of 1880 is the distance between 1880 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1880:

Since the distance between 1880 and 0 on a number line is 1880, we get the answer as follows:
|1880| = 1880
Note that the absolute value of 1880 can also be written as abs(1880) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1881
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