The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1918 or 1918?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1918?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1918| = ?
The absolute value of 1918 is the distance between 1918 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1918:
Since the distance between 1918 and 0 on a number line is 1918, we get the answer as follows:
|1918| = 1918
Note that the absolute value of 1918 can also be written as abs(1918) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1919
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