The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8583 or 8583?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8583?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8583| = ?
The absolute value of 8583 is the distance between 8583 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8583:

Since the distance between 8583 and 0 on a number line is 8583, we get the answer as follows:
|8583| = 8583
Note that the absolute value of 8583 can also be written as abs(8583) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8584
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