The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9866 or 9866?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9866?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9866| = ?
The absolute value of 9866 is the distance between 9866 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9866:

Since the distance between 9866 and 0 on a number line is 9866, we get the answer as follows:
|9866| = 9866
Note that the absolute value of 9866 can also be written as abs(9866) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9867
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