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Truncation and reordering are distinct but complementary strategies. Truncation reduces the total number of chunks (n), but you still must decide the order of the remaining chunks. If truncation reduces the context to n ≤ 3, the entire context falls within the primacy zone, making the ordering strategy irrelevant. However, for pipelines where n > 4, the outside-in alternating scheme is mathematically superior to descending order because it leverages the model’s safe zones more effectively. The final decision should be based on measuring expected accuracy under the specific pipeline’s rank-probability distribution rather than relying on intuition.