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Take any negative integers, say -5 and -10, their sum is -15 which is smaller than both of them. We could have used 0 as well, so I should have said any non-positive integers. To see that is does not work with positive integers, take 5 and 10 whose sum is 15 which is BIGGER than either one.

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