The first graph shows 6 located at a distance of 6 units from zero.
What does absolute value mean in math terms.
Look at the following two graphs.
The absolute value is really just the distance of x from 0.
The distance is always positive as absolute value of a number cannot be negative.
6 is 6 away from zero so the absolute value of 6 is 6 6 is 6 away from zero so the absolute value of 6 is 6 in other words it is the magnitude or size of a number no negatives allowed.
The absolute value of a number is the distance the number is from zero.
So let me just draw a fast number line over here.
Since the complex numbers are not ordered the definition given at the top for the real absolute value cannot be directly applied to complex numbers however the geometric interpretation of the absolute value of a real number as its distance from 0 can be generalised.
How far a number is from zero.
Absolute value refers to the distance of a number from zero regardless of direction.
The symbol is placed either side to mean absolute value so we write.
Absolute valuethe absolute value of a number is the positive value of that number.
Definition of absolute value.
The distance of a quantity from zero.
So the absolute.
Find the absolute value of x when x is equal to 5 x is equal to negative 10 and x is equal to negative 12.
The absolute value of a complex number is defined by the euclidean distance of its corresponding point in the complex plane.
Use this term to refer to the distance of a point or number from the origin zero of a number line.
For a positive number it is just the number.
For a negative number it is its positive value.