The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2001 or 2001?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2001?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2001| = ?
The absolute value of 2001 is the distance between 2001 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2001:
Since the distance between 2001 and 0 on a number line is 2001, we get the answer as follows:
|2001| = 2001
Note that the absolute value of 2001 can also be written as abs(2001) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2002
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