Score : 300 points
In a flower bed, there are N flowers, numbered 1,2,......,N. Initially, the heights of all flowers are 0. You are given a sequence h=\{h_1,h_2,h_3,......\} as input. You would like to change the height of Flower k to h_k for all k (1 \leq k \leq N), by repeating the following "watering" operation:
Find the minimum number of watering operations required to satisfy the condition.
Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:
N h_1 h_2 h_3 ...... h_N
Print the minimum number of watering operations required to satisfy the condition.
4 1 2 2 1
2
The minimum number of watering operations required is 2. One way to achieve it is:
5 3 1 2 3 1
5
8 4 23 75 0 23 96 50 100
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