“…As in the invertible case, it is natural to ask for the maximum size of a forward orbit; this question was explored for some specific noninvertible combinatorial dynamical systems in [2,10,23,26,27,29,33,35,44,47]. Another typical line of questions, especially in the case of sorting operators, asks for the characterization and/or enumeration of elements of X that require at most t iterations of f to reach a fixed point (see [1,13,20,22,26,28,31,39,48] and the references therein).…”