Solve the Sequence Puzzle: Identifying My Successor Before 2000

The number after me is 2000. What number am I?

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The number after me is 2000. What number am I?

To determine the number that comes immediately before 2000, we can use the property of consecutive integers, which differ by exactly 1.

Step 1: Identify the given number, which is 2000, and recognize we need the number preceding it.
Step 2: Subtract 1 from 2000, because consecutive numbers differ by one.
Step 3: Perform the subtraction: $2000 - 1 = 1999$ .

Thus, the number that comes right before 2000 is $1999$ .

$1999$

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