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A number A is said to be greater than another number B is A - B is more than 0.

If A is positive and B is negative, then A - B is always positive and so each positive number is greater than each negative number.

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Think of the temperature scale.

Comfortable air temperature may be say (+)16 oC , but a very cold air temperature may be say -20 oC

The figure is greater but the temperature is much less.

So think of numbers in the same way.

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