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>>165679 Just to get further off topic: computers compare numbers by subtraction and then seeing if it's negative or positive. Formal mathematics doesn't really have any reason why 9>5 that's not axiomatic, which is to say we could construct alternate number systems (like modular arithmetic, or, more broadly, number rings instead of number lines) where the numbering makes no sense in terms of greater or where 5>9, despite possessing fewer units. We could even produce intransitive numbering systems where 9>5, but 7>9 and 5>7. The only real limit to possible ordering is our ability to describe the situation mathematically.
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