document.write( "Question 658184: Here is my writing to explain question, why is the value of A -1 always less than the value of A?
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "In the context of numbers, less than means to the left on the number line. That is to say that if

is less than

, then

is to the left of

. But the act of adding a

to a number moves the value one unit to the left of its original place on the number line. That is to say, because of the definition of the operation of subtraction,

is always to the left of, and therefore less than,

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