The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2423 or 2423?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2423?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2423| = ?
The absolute value of 2423 is the distance between 2423 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2423:

Since the distance between 2423 and 0 on a number line is 2423, we get the answer as follows:
|2423| = 2423
Note that the absolute value of 2423 can also be written as abs(2423) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2424
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