26 Jul
2018
26 Jul
'18
10:53 p.m.
f(x)=ax is strictly increasing iff a>0 and weakly increasing iff a >= 0, and we sometimes say that a is strictly positive as a way of saying a>0, so shouldn’t we say a is weakly positive iff a>=0? Does anyone use the phrase “weakly positive” in this way? Jim Propp