What are absolute values?

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Wataru
Oct 25, 2014

You can think of the absolute value sign as a negative sign eraser. It does not do anything to a nonnegative number but turns a negative number into the positive number having the same magnitude; for example, #|2|=2# and #|-3|=3#.

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