The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8597 or 8597?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8597?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8597| = ?
The absolute value of 8597 is the distance between 8597 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8597:

Since the distance between 8597 and 0 on a number line is 8597, we get the answer as follows:
|8597| = 8597
Note that the absolute value of 8597 can also be written as abs(8597) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8598
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