12 years of Python and only at v2.2

[Chad Netzer]

On Thursday 05 December 2002 11:58, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 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...

True, but the mathematical definitions are precise, and can be had 
in many texts or websites (so, I'll skip it here).

I always thought the best verbal definition of a monotonic 
function/sequence was simply "either non-increasing or 
non-decreasing", with perhaps the assumption that it isn't merely 
constant.

Whereas "strictly monotonic", means "either always increasing or 
always decreasing".

So, Greg's definition is fine, although I'd say that he was 
actually giving the definition for "strictly monotonic" (since I 
interpret direction to not allow the lack of a direction)

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Chad Netzer
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