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Simplifying Financial Adjustment Notations

A payroll clerk is reconciling a ledger and encounters two different notations for a transaction correction. The first is recorded as the 'opposite of a negative shift,' written as −(−9)-(-9). The second is recorded as the 'absolute value of the shift,' written as ∣−9∣|-9|. What is the single positive integer that both of these notations represent once they are simplified?

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