unimodal sequence
unimodal sequence
[‚yü·nə‚mōd·əl ′sē·kwəns] (mathematics)
A finite sequence of n real numbers, a1, a2, …, an , for which there is a positive integer, j, greater than 1 and less than n, such that ai is greater than ai-1for i greater than 1 and less than j, aj is greater than or equal to aj-1, and ai is less than ai-1for i greater than j and equal to or less than n.
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