The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 511 or 511?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 511?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|511| = ?
The absolute value of 511 is the distance between 511 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 511:
Since the distance between 511 and 0 on a number line is 511, we get the answer as follows:
|511| = 511
Note that the absolute value of 511 can also be written as abs(511) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 512
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