Cant understand the ques

#1

i am not able to understand the ques…
what is bitonic??
plzz help…

#2

A sequence is bitonic if it monotonically increases and then monotonically de- creases, or if it can be circularly shifted to monotonically increase and then monotonically decrease. For example the sequences (1, 4, 6, 8, 3, −2) , (9, 2, −4, −10, −5) , and (1, 2, 3, 4) are bitonic, but (1, 3, 12, 4, 2, 10) is not bitonic.

A bitonic sequence:

 /\
/  \
    \/

Not a bitonic sequence:

 /\    
/  \  / (higher than start)
    \/

Obviously if the direction changes more than two times we cannot have a bitonic sequence.
If the direction changes less than two times, we must have a bitonic sequence.

If there are two changes in direction, we MAY have a bitonic sequence. Consider the two ascii images above. Clearly a sequence with two changes in direction will match one of the patterns (allowing for a reflection). Thus, we set the initial direction by comparing the first and last elements. Since these can be the same, we use the first element that is not equal to the last element.