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		elwell on April 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Decline of Usability > monotonically worse over time An orthogonal interrogation of course, but I pontificate: does specificity truly monotonically increase by specification of some gradient being monotonic, making the modifier "monotonically" not merely monotonically increasing with grandiloquence?

elwell on April 18, 2020 [–]

Okay, I was being annoying, but I would actually like to know what the difference between "monotonically worse" and "worse" is.

al_chemist on April 18, 2020 | [–]

"monotonically worse" means it never gets better. "worse" without "monotonically" means it may get better for a bit, but overall it will be worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonic_function

elwell on April 18, 2020 | | [–]

Ah, thanks a lot!

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