The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1887 or 1887?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1887?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1887| = ?
The absolute value of 1887 is the distance between 1887 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1887:
Since the distance between 1887 and 0 on a number line is 1887, we get the answer as follows:
|1887| = 1887
Note that the absolute value of 1887 can also be written as abs(1887) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1888
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