The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2013 or 2013?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2013?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2013| = ?
The absolute value of 2013 is the distance between 2013 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2013:
Since the distance between 2013 and 0 on a number line is 2013, we get the answer as follows:
|2013| = 2013
Note that the absolute value of 2013 can also be written as abs(2013) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2014
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