The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2143 or 2143?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2143?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2143| = ?
The absolute value of 2143 is the distance between 2143 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2143:

Since the distance between 2143 and 0 on a number line is 2143, we get the answer as follows:
|2143| = 2143
Note that the absolute value of 2143 can also be written as abs(2143) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2144
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