The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8580 or 8580?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8580?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8580| = ?
The absolute value of 8580 is the distance between 8580 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8580:

Since the distance between 8580 and 0 on a number line is 8580, we get the answer as follows:
|8580| = 8580
Note that the absolute value of 8580 can also be written as abs(8580) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8581
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