The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8586 or 8586?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8586?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8586| = ?
The absolute value of 8586 is the distance between 8586 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8586:

Since the distance between 8586 and 0 on a number line is 8586, we get the answer as follows:
|8586| = 8586
Note that the absolute value of 8586 can also be written as abs(8586) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8587
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