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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def fabs(x):
 """ Absolute value function """

    if isinstance(x, UncertainFunction):
        mcpts = np.fabs(x._mcpts)
        return UncertainFunction(mcpts)
    else:
        return np.fabs(x)