The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9863 or 9863?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9863?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9863| = ?
The absolute value of 9863 is the distance between 9863 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9863:

Since the distance between 9863 and 0 on a number line is 9863, we get the answer as follows:
|9863| = 9863
Note that the absolute value of 9863 can also be written as abs(9863) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9864
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