The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1963 or 1963?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1963?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1963| = ?
The absolute value of 1963 is the distance between 1963 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1963:
Since the distance between 1963 and 0 on a number line is 1963, we get the answer as follows:
|1963| = 1963
Note that the absolute value of 1963 can also be written as abs(1963) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1964
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