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= Solution
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\b[Only (ii) is necessarily true.] Every real $a_n$ satisfies $a_n^2\geq0>c$, so (ii) holds automatically. For a single counterexample to (i) and (iii), choose $c=-3$ and $a_0=1$. The <recurrence relation> then gives the nonzero periodic <sequence>
$$
a_{2j}=1,\qquad a_{2j+1}=-1\qquad(j\geq0).
$$
Here $a_1<0$, disproving (i), and $a_2>a_1$, disproving (iii). This counterexample satisfies the requirement that no iterate is zero.

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