<p>An array is <strong>monotonic</strong> if it is either monotone increasing or monotone decreasing.</p> <p>An array <code>nums</code> is monotone increasing if for all <code>i <= j</code>, <code>nums[i] <= nums[j]</code>. An array <code>nums</code> is monotone decreasing if for all <code>i <= j</code>, <code>nums[i] >= nums[j]</code>.</p> <p>Given an integer array <code>nums</code>, return <code>true</code><em> if the given array is monotonic, or </em><code>false</code><em> otherwise</em>.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Example 1:</strong></p> <pre> <strong>Input:</strong> nums = [1,2,2,3] <strong>Output:</strong> true </pre> <p><strong>Example 2:</strong></p> <pre> <strong>Input:</strong> nums = [6,5,4,4] <strong>Output:</strong> true </pre> <p><strong>Example 3:</strong></p> <pre> <strong>Input:</strong> nums = [1,3,2] <strong>Output:</strong> false </pre> <p> </p> <p><strong>Constraints:</strong></p> <ul> <li><code>1 <= nums.length <= 10<sup>5</sup></code></li> <li><code>-10<sup>5</sup> <= nums[i] <= 10<sup>5</sup></code></li> </ul>