This paper is devoted to study the periodic nature of the solution of the following max‐type difference equation:
xn+1=max{}Anxn−1,xn−2,2.56804pt2.56804pt2.56804ptn=0,1,…,
where the initial conditions x−2,x−1,x0 are arbitrary positive real numbers and
{An}n=0∞ is a periodic sequence of period two. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.