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Speed and velocity cannot be compared because they are different things. It is like saying "apples > Oranges". Velocity is a vector and, as such, it has a direction and a size. The size of the vector velocity is it's speed.


To answer your question: no because they can't be compared. And if you wanted to ask if the size of the velocity vector being smaller than the speed... no... that is the definition of speed... so it cannot be different, regardless of the number of dimensions you are using.

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