The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2147 or 2147?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2147?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2147| = ?
The absolute value of 2147 is the distance between 2147 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2147:

Since the distance between 2147 and 0 on a number line is 2147, we get the answer as follows:
|2147| = 2147
Note that the absolute value of 2147 can also be written as abs(2147) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2148
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