The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3642 or 3642?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3642?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3642| = ?
The absolute value of 3642 is the distance between 3642 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3642:

Since the distance between 3642 and 0 on a number line is 3642, we get the answer as follows:
|3642| = 3642
Note that the absolute value of 3642 can also be written as abs(3642) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3643
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