12 years of Python and only at v2.2

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Greg Ewing fed this fish to the penguins on Wednesday 04 December 2002 
06:03 pm:

> That's still monotonic. ("Monotonic" doesn't mean
> "regular", it just means "always going in the same
> direction".)
> 

        "Monotonic" is, itself, a hard term to pin down... Out of three 
dictionaries in my possession, only the OED had any definitions that 
were not tied to the literal "single tone". [I would like to state that 
one of the other two dictionaries is a 4" thick unabridged, not the 
more common "college" editions]

        The OED secondary definition was of a function which neither increased 
nor decreased, or if it did increase/decrease, it did so in such a 
manner (nothing like a recursive definition) -- which I interpret to 
mean no increase/decrease in steps.

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