The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 255 or 255?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 255?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|255| = ?
The absolute value of 255 is the distance between 255 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 255:
Since the distance between 255 and 0 on a number line is 255, we get the answer as follows:
|255| = 255
Note that the absolute value of 255 can also be written as abs(255) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 256
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