The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8590 or 8590?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8590?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8590| = ?
The absolute value of 8590 is the distance between 8590 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8590:

Since the distance between 8590 and 0 on a number line is 8590, we get the answer as follows:
|8590| = 8590
Note that the absolute value of 8590 can also be written as abs(8590) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8591
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