Ordering of Reciprocals/Proof 2

Proof
By Reciprocal Function is Strictly Decreasing, the reciprocal function is strictly decreasing.

Thus
 * $x \le y \implies \dfrac 1 y \le \dfrac 1 x$

Suppose then that $\dfrac 1 y \le \dfrac 1 x$.

Since $x, y < 0$ or $x, y > 0$, we know that $\dfrac 1 y, \dfrac 1 x < 0$ or $\dfrac 1 y, \dfrac 1 x > 0$.

Thus we can apply the above to show that:
 * $\dfrac 1 {1/x} \le \dfrac 1 {1/y}$

By Inverse of Multiplicative Inverse:
 * $x \le y$