<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c782d736-af0a-400e-8fdd-7297c0003737/9717BC8E-69BA-4D70-B69C-4E5F9A6BF767/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Absolute_value&oldid=110903067" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Absolute_value&oldid=110903067" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Absolute_value&oldid=110903067">In <A title="Mathematics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics" set="yes">mathematics</A>, the <B>absolute value</B> (or <B>modulus</B><SUP class="reference" id="_ref-Argand_0"><A title="" href="#_note-Argand">[1]</A></SUP>) of a <A title="Real number" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_number" set="yes">real number</A> is its numerical value without regard to its <A title="Negative and non-negative numbers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_non-negative_numbers">sign</A>. So, for example, 3 is the absolute value of both 3 and −3. In computers, the <A title="Mathematical function" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_function" set="yes">mathematical function</A> used to perform this calculation is usually given the name <B>abs()</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Absolute_value&oldid=110903067">Generalizations of the absolute value for real numbers occur in a wide variety of mathematical settings. For example an absolute value is also defined for the <A title="Complex number" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number" set="yes">complex numbers</A>, the <A title="Quaternion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion">quaternions</A>, <A title="Ordered ring" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered_ring">ordered rings</A>, <A title="Field (mathematics)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_%28mathematics%29">fields</A> and <A title="Vector space" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space" set="yes">vector spaces</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Absolute_value&oldid=110903067">The absolute value is closely related to the notions of <A title="Magnitude (mathematics)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitude_%28mathematics%29" set="yes">magnitude</A>, <A title="Distance" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance" set="yes">distance</A>, and <A title="Norm (mathematics)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_%28mathematics%29" set="yes">norm</A> in various mathematical and physical contexts.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9717BC8E-69BA-4D70-B69C-4E5F9A6BF767/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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