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those are great thoughts, Bean. I would guess that there are more of those "I don't know's" out there, too.
mm hmm.
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My Dad - whose first language is not English - can't hear the difference between "uh huh" and "uh uh" and their corresponding humming equivalents.
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prayers are more monotonic than speechShouldn't that be monotonous, Bean? 
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now who's wearing the skirt? 
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Shouldn't that be monotonous, Bean?
Sorry, I slipped and used a math word IRL (monotonic = not increasing, or not decreasing). (If you call this Real Life.)
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I thought monotonic meant that it only increased or decreased.
Well--Bean said that monotonic = not increasing, or not decreasing . (I added the boldface.) Not increasing means, I think, that something either stays the same or decreases; and the opposite for not decreasing. So it seems to me that her def. fits.
I looked at the site, and, while not coming anywhere near real comprehension, I did find it cool that they make a distinction for staying the same. If a sequence could stay the same or get smaller, they say it is "monotonically nonincreasing". If one could stay the same or get larger, they say it is "monotonically nondecreasing".
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her def. fits
Point taken, Jackie. Score another one for careful reading.
a distinction for staying the same.
There's a similar distinction between positive and non-negative. The former does not include zero; the latter does.
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Yeah, what Jackie said. I gave it some thought and was fairly sure that "monotonic" on its own allows the possibility of staying the same, so that's why I defined it so oddly.
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