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Why -1 is the greatest integer?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

It is not - so the question is seriously flawed.

If you stated that -1 was the greatest (most positive) negative integer you would be correct. However, numbers are infinite so you cannot state a greatest integer. Integers are both positive and negative numbers, but have to be whole numbers

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