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The problem
In the previous section, you learned that Quadrangle Inequality (QI) improvement works when optimal splits are monotonic. But what if your cost function doesn't satisfy QI? Consider where is a prefix sum.
Expanding: . The term mixes and . This isn't QI-friendly. But look closer: for fixed , this is linear in . That's the pattern CHT exploits.
