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<p>The basic building blocks of generalized geometric programming are
monomials, posynomials, and generalized posynomials. A valid monomial is</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>a declared variable;</li>
<li>the product of two or more monomials;</li>
<li>the ratio of two monomials;</li>
<li>a monomial raised to a real power; or</li>
<li>a call to one of the following functions with monomial arguments:
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">prod</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal