The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2371 or 2371?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2371?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2371| = ?
The absolute value of 2371 is the distance between 2371 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2371:

Since the distance between 2371 and 0 on a number line is 2371, we get the answer as follows:
|2371| = 2371
Note that the absolute value of 2371 can also be written as abs(2371) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2372
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