monkey saddles

[waider]

I went looking for information on a protocol called "AP142", and the first hit that google returned included the phrase "monkey saddles". I guess the monkey's gotta stay on your back somehow; a saddle seems a reasonable device to keep him there. Oh, wait. It's architecture/topology.

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[annathyst]

a "monkey saddle" is a surface that's the canonical example of the third kind of extremum of a function of multiple variables; that is, not a minimum and not a maximum.
it's called that because the surface has three dents; two for the monkey's legs and one for the tail.