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A proper fraction is one in which the absolute value of the numerator (the top) is smaller than the absolute value of the denominator.

A sloppy definition would be that the numerator is smaller than the denominator. By that definition, -3/2 should be a proper fraction because -3 is less than 2.

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a fraction that is less than one, with the numerator less than the denominator.

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