The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8591 or 8591?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8591?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8591| = ?
The absolute value of 8591 is the distance between 8591 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8591:

Since the distance between 8591 and 0 on a number line is 8591, we get the answer as follows:
|8591| = 8591
Note that the absolute value of 8591 can also be written as abs(8591) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8592
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