Definition:Strictly Decreasing/Sequence

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Definition

Let $\struct {S, \preceq}$ be a totally ordered set.


Then a sequence $\sequence {a_k}_{k \mathop \in A}$ of terms of $S$ is strictly decreasing if and only if:

$\forall j, k \in A: j < k \implies a_k \prec a_j$


Real Sequence

The above definition for sequences is usually applied to real number sequences:


Let $\sequence {x_n}$ be a sequence in $\R$.


Then $\sequence {x_n}$ is strictly decreasing if and only if:

$\forall n \in \N: x_{n + 1} < x_n$


Also known as

A strictly decreasing sequence is also referred to as strictly order-reversing.

Some sources use the term descending sequence or strictly descending sequence.


Some sources refer to a strictly decreasing sequence as a decreasing sequence, and refer to a decreasing sequence which is not strictly decreasing as a monotonic decreasing sequence to distinguish it from a strictly decreasing sequence.

That is, such that monotonic is being used to mean a decreasing sequence in which consecutive terms may be equal.

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