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Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 10:50:42
On Feb 17, 2006, at 11:14, Tom.Petch wrote:
Elsewhere - dictionaries, encyclopaedia, text books -  I see it
defined so that when applied to a sequence of numbers, then each number is not
less than its predecessor, so that

That's "non-decreasing". As far as I've ever heard (math classes as well as CS), a monotonic increasing sequence is one where each element is strictly greater than the previous element.

b) each number is an integer

Well, we deal with integers a lot...

Q1) Can anyone point me to an authoritative source that endorses the RFC usage?

Actually, I'd be surprised to see sources for the other usage. The first few hits on google support the strictly-greater definition....

Ken

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