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A value is "absolute" if it can only be the positive numerical value of a number. (Sometimes this is also referred to as the "modulus"). For example, the absolute value of -8 is 8. It changes all negatives into positives, but does NOT change positives into negatives. Absolute values are useful for calculating distances, since having a negative distances is fairly useless...
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