The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 512 or 512?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 512?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|512| = ?
The absolute value of 512 is the distance between 512 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 512:
Since the distance between 512 and 0 on a number line is 512, we get the answer as follows:
|512| = 512
Note that the absolute value of 512 can also be written as abs(512) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 513
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