The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8579 or 8579?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8579?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8579| = ?
The absolute value of 8579 is the distance between 8579 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8579:

Since the distance between 8579 and 0 on a number line is 8579, we get the answer as follows:
|8579| = 8579
Note that the absolute value of 8579 can also be written as abs(8579) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8580
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