The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8581 or 8581?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8581?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8581| = ?
The absolute value of 8581 is the distance between 8581 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8581:

Since the distance between 8581 and 0 on a number line is 8581, we get the answer as follows:
|8581| = 8581
Note that the absolute value of 8581 can also be written as abs(8581) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8582
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