The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8588 or 8588?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8588?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8588| = ?
The absolute value of 8588 is the distance between 8588 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8588:

Since the distance between 8588 and 0 on a number line is 8588, we get the answer as follows:
|8588| = 8588
Note that the absolute value of 8588 can also be written as abs(8588) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8589
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