12 years of Python and only at v2.2

[Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote previously:
|        "Monotonic" is, itself, a hard term to pin down...

mon o ton ic (Mathematics):
    Designating sequences, the successive members of which either
    consistently increase or decrease but do not oscillate in relative
    value.  Each member of a monotone increasing sequence is greater
    than or equal to the preceding member; each member of a monotone
    decreasing sequence is less than or equal to the preceding member.[
    From Greek monotonos, monotonous; See monotonous] monôo tonóic adj.
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    The American Heritage (r) Concise Dictionary of the English
    Language, Third Edition.  Copyright (c) 1992

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