The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 256 or 256?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 256?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|256| = ?
The absolute value of 256 is the distance between 256 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 256:
Since the distance between 256 and 0 on a number line is 256, we get the answer as follows:
|256| = 256
Note that the absolute value of 256 can also be written as abs(256) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 257
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