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Monotonic Monotony

June 23, 2017

Two bored students at desks agree that their lecture keeps getting duller: the monotony is monotonic.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-06-23-monotonic-monotony/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Student 1: "This lecture on functions is getting more and more boring."

Student 2: "Indeed. The monotony is monotonic."

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