12 years of Python and only at v2.2

[Erik Max Francis]

Brad Hards wrote:

> Strictly speaking, releases are not monotonic, because they are
> discrete
> points, not continuous functions, and IIRC, the formal definition is a
> limit
> function, which clearly won't work in this case.

Sequences can certainly be mononotic.  Even monotonic _functions_ need
not be continuous:

	http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MonotonicFunction.html

Strictly speaking, though, I don't think the release numbers have been
monotonic over time.  Remember dot releases.

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