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What is the smallest negative integer?

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Determine the smallest negative integer.
The set of a negative integers is $\{- 1, - 2, - 3, . . .\}$ .
From the above set, the greatest negative integer is $- 1$ .
We know that there are an infinite number of negative integers.
Hence, there is no smallest negative integer.

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