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This paper deals with the absolute stability of single‐input single‐output time‐delay systems with, in general, a finite number of non commensurate constant internal point delays for any nonlinearity satisfying a time positivity inequality related to the first and third quadrants. The results are obtained based on Lyapunov's stability analysis via appropriate Lyapunov's functions and the related stability study is performed to obtain both delay independent and delay dependent results.

The sequential nonlinear mapping is suitable for sequential detection of states of dynamic systems (Montvilas, 1999a). In addition, it can indicate the undesirable states and even the damages of dynamic systems. The last is complicated when the damage is caused by a small changing of respective parameter describing the state. In the paper the problem of nonlinear mapping to be sensitive for the small changing of parameters and the problem related with dimensionality of parameters are solved by using a special pre-processing of data. Examples are given.