[Kevan]

How to overcomplicate things eh, 1st gear in a car is a higher ratio gearing than 5th gear, I bet there aren't many who race model cars think like that, I've certainly never met one in the 45 years that model cars with gears have been my hobby 

ratio

noun
noun: ratio; plural noun: ratios
the quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other.

3/1=3
2/1=2

3 is a higher number than 2

I prefer the K.I.S.S. method