How do you find the absolute value of abs(0)?

1 Answer
Oct 23, 2016

|0|=0

Explanation:

Absolute value of a number is its value sans its sign, positive or negative i.e. for +17, it is 17 and for -17 to it is 17.

Number 0 does not have any sign and +0=-0=0. Hence, we can say that |0|=0.

Graphically, absolute value of a number can be described as distance of its location on real number line from origin i.e. point described as 0, irrespective of its direction, whether towards positive or negative side of origin.
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Again as distance of 0 from origin is 0, its absolute value |0|=0