Similarly sorted

Two sequences are similarly sorted if they are either both rising or both falling.
For instance

$a_1 \geq a_2 \geq \cdots \geq a_n$

$b_1 \geq b_2 \geq \cdots \geq b_n$

are similarly sorted (they are both falling as the index value increases).

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