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We investigate the boundedness nature of positive solutions of the difference equation $$ x_{n + 1} = max\left\{ {\frac{{A_n }} {{X_n }},\frac{{B_n }} {{X_{n - 2} }}} \right\},n = 0,1,..., $$ where {A n}n=0∞ and {B n}n=0∞ are periodic sequences of positive real numbers.