No, it isn't.
It might be easier if you look at it this way: is $.50 smaller than $.10?
50 cents is bigger than 10 cents, and .5 is bigger than .1.
1 and a half is smaller then 5 and a half
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- 5 is the smaller number. The truncated number line.- 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 0 1 2 3----------------------------------- 5 is in the " smaller " direction from 0.
5/4 = 1 and 1/4 5/6 is less than 1 so 5/6 is smaller than 5/4
1 to 25 is equal to 3 to 75 which is smaller than 5 to 75.
1/5 An eighth piece is smaller *REMEMBER: The bigger to bottem number the smaller it is.*
5 megabytes is much smaller than 1 terabyte (about 20,000 times smaller).
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1/10 which is 1 out of ten, Think of breaking ten into 10 small equal size pieces and 5 into 5 equal size pieces. The pieces of 10 are smaller
1 micron is smaller
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1/5 is smaller than 7/8