What is the smallest negative?

The set of negative integers start from -1 up to negative infinity where the largest negative integer is -1 and the smallest negative number occurs at negative infinity (i.e., does not exist). Therefore, the smallest negative number does not exist.
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What's the smallest negative number?

There is no “smallest negative integer.” You can have an infinite number of negative numbers.
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What is the smallest negative or positive?

(i) The smallest integer is zero. (ii) The opposite of zero is zero.
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Is negative 1 the smallest number?

-1 is a largest negative integer and it is not a smallest negative integer. There is no smallest negative integer because the negative integer starts from -1 and goes towards infinity.
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How small is negative?

A negative number is any number that is less than zero. For instance, -7 is a number that is seven less than 0.
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Negative Numbers: An Overview



Is minus one smaller than zero?

On a number line all negative integers lie to the left of 0. Hence, each negative integer is smaller than zero.
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Is negative 1 or 2 bigger?

We know that the always positive integer is greater than the negative integer. So that 1 is greater than -2.
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Is negative 1 or negative 2 bigger?

Introduction. How are negative numbers compared? On a number line, numbers always increase (become "more positive") to the right and decrease (become "more negative") to the left. Numbers to the right are greater than numbers to the left and numbers to the left are less than numbers to the right.
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Is 0 the largest negative number?

Negative integers are numbers that are less than zero. Now, when we move right in the number line from 0 we will find -1 to be the first one we will observe. So, -1 is the greatest of all the negative integers.
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Is negative infinity the smallest number?

Numbers approach negative infinity as they move left on a number line and positive infinity as they move right on a number line. Negative infinity is always less than any number, and positive infinity is greater than any number.
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What is the biggest negative number?

So, −1 is the largest of all the negative numbers. Therefore, In conclusion we can say that −1 is the largest negative number.
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What is the biggest positive or negative?

Remember, a positive number is always greater than a negative number, and when comparing negative numbers, the one farther from zero is less.
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Does negative 1 exist?

Whilst -5 apples can be thought of as a debt to a greengrocer, having √-1, or i, apples is simply impossible. The number i is not greater than 0, or less than 0, or equal to 0 itself — it does not exist anywhere on the number line at all.
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Is there such thing as negative 1?

In mathematics, −1 (negative one or minus one) is the additive inverse of 1, that is, the number that when added to 1 gives the additive identity element, 0. It is the negative integer greater than negative two (−2) and less than 0.
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Is there a negative zero?

Negative zero has the sign bit set to one. One may obtain negative zero as the result of certain computations, for instance as the result of arithmetic underflow on a negative number (other results may also be possible), or −1.0×0.0 , or simply as −0.0 .
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Is negative 5 bigger than negative 2?

"-5" is more negative than "-2".
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Is negative 3 or zero bigger?

Every negative integer is on the left of zero on the number line. Hence, zero is greater than every negative integer.
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What greater 0 or negative 2?

Numbers can be positive or negative. Positive numbers are greater than 0, and negative numbers are less than 0.
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Is a negative or 0 bigger?

Positive numbers are greater than 0 and located to the right of 0 on a number line. Negative numbers are less than 0 and located to the left of 0 on a number line. The number zero is neither positive nor negative.
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What is smaller than zero?

Negative number. A number less than 0 is called a negative number.
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Is 7 positive or negative?

Any number without a minus sign in front of it is considered to be a positive number, meaning a number that's greater than zero. So while -7 is negative seven, 7 is positive seven, or simply seven.
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What comes after negative 1?

The plus or addition sign tells us to move to the right on the number line. Starting at -1, move 3 steps to the right on the number line. You will end up at 2.
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Is negative 6 a whole?

Key idea: Whole numbers don't include negative numbers, fractions, or decimals.
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Are negative numbers prime?

Answer One: No.

By the usual definition of prime for integers, negative integers can not be prime. By this definition, primes are integers greater than one with no positive divisors besides one and itself. Negative numbers are excluded.
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