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Cyclical monotonicity

Okay, have you ever gone on a merry-go-round? It's a fun ride that goes around and around, right? Well, cyclical monotonicity is kind of like that.

Imagine you have a list of numbers, and you want to put them in order from smallest to largest. You start with the smallest number and keep adding the next smallest number until you have all of them in order.

Now, let's say you want to see if this list of numbers goes up and down in a pattern, like the horse on the merry-go-round going up and down. Cyclical monotonicity is just a fancy way of saying that the list of numbers goes up and down in a predictable way, where it keeps going up, then down, then up again, and so on.

It's like the merry-go-round going up and down in a cycle, and the cycle repeats itself over and over again. It's important to know about cyclical monotonicity because it helps us understand patterns in data and how things change over time.