Problem:
Score : 200 points

Problem Statement

Takahashi lives in another world. There are slimes (creatures) of 10000 colors in this world. Let us call these colors Color 1, 2, ..., 10000.

Takahashi has N slimes, and they are standing in a row from left to right. The color of the i-th slime from the left is a_i.
If two slimes of the same color are adjacent, they will start to combine themselves. Because Takahashi likes smaller slimes, he has decided to change the colors of some of the slimes with his magic.

Takahashi can change the color of one slime to any of the 10000 colors by one spell.
How many spells are required so that no slimes will start to combine themselves?

Constraints

2 \leq N \leq 100

1 \leq a_i \leq N

All values in input are integers.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N
a_1 a_2 ... a_N

Output

Print the minimum number of spells required.

Sample Input 1

5
1 1 2 2 2

Sample Output 1

2

For example, if we change the color of the second slime from the left to 4, and the color of the fourth slime to 5, the colors of the slimes will be 1, 4, 2, 5, 2, which satisfy the condition.

Sample Input 2

3
1 2 1

Sample Output 2

0

Although the colors of the first and third slimes are the same, they are not adjacent, so no spell is required.

Sample Input 3

5
1 1 1 1 1

Sample Output 3

2

For example, if we change the colors of the second and fourth slimes from the left to 2, the colors of the slimes will be 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, which satisfy the condition.

Sample Input 4

14
1 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 1 2 3 4

Sample Output 4

4

Solution in C (GCC 5.4.1) (judge verdict: Accepted)

/*
cat <<EOF >mistaken-paste
*/

#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wincompatible-pointer-types"
#define _USE_MATH_DEFINES

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <time.h>

#define BIG 2000000007
#define VERYBIG 2000000000000007LL

#define MOD 1000000007
#define FOD  998244353
typedef uint64_t ull;
typedef  int64_t sll;

#define N_MAX 1000000
#define M_MAX 200000

#ifdef __cplusplus
#include <queue>
#include <stack>
#include <tuple>
#include <set>
#include <map>
#include <string>

// using namespace std; // HELL
using std::queue;
using std::priority_queue;
using std::stack;
using std::tuple;
using std::set;
using std::map;
using std::vector;
using std::greater;
using std::pair;
using std::string;

#endif

typedef struct {
	int32_t a;
	int32_t b;
} hw;

typedef struct {
	sll a;
	sll b;
} hwll;

typedef struct {
	sll a;
	sll b;
	sll c;
} hwllc;

typedef struct {
	hwll a;
	hwll b;
} linell;

ull n, m;
ull h, w;
ull k;
ull q;
ull vua, vub, vuc, vud, vue, vuf;
sll vsa, vsb, vsc, vsd, vse, vsf;
long double vra, vrb, vrc;
double vda, vdb, vdc;
char ch, dh;

ull umin (ull x, ull y) {
	return (x < y) ? x : y;
}

ull umax (ull x, ull y) {
	return (x > y) ? x : y;
}

sll smin (sll x, sll y) {
	return (x < y) ? x : y;
}

sll smax (sll x, sll y) {
	return (x > y) ? x : y;
}

ull gcd (ull x, ull y) {
	if (x < y) {
		return gcd(y, x);
	} else if (y == 0) {
		return x;
	} else {
		return gcd(y, x % y);
	}
}

ull bitpow (ull a, ull x, ull modulo) {
	ull result = 1;
	while (x) {
		if (x & 1) {
			result *= a;
			result %= modulo;
		}
		x /= 2;
		a = (a * a) % modulo;
	}
	return result;
}

ull divide (ull a, ull b, ull modulo) {
	return (a * bitpow(b, modulo - 2, modulo)) % modulo;
}

ull udiff (ull a, ull b) {
	if (a >= b) {
		return a - b;
	} else {
		return b - a;
	}
}

sll sdiff (sll a, sll b) {
	if (a >= b) {
		return a - b;
	} else {
		return b - a;
	}
}

int bitcount (ull n) {
	int result = 0;
	while (n) {
		if (n & 1) result++;
		n /= 2;
	}
	return result;
}

// double distance (sll x1, sll y1, sll x2, sll y2) {
// 	double xdist2, ydist2, origindist, dist;

// 	xdist2 = (x1 - x2) * (x1 - x2);
// 	ydist2 = (y1 - y2) * (y1 - y2);
// 	return sqrt(xdist2 + ydist2);
// }

int32_t pullcomp (const void *left, const void *right) {
	ull l = *(ull*)left;
	ull r = *(ull*)right;
	if (l < r) {
		return -1;
	}
	if (l > r) {
		return +1;
	}
	return 0;
}

int32_t psllcomp (const void *left, const void *right) {
	sll l = *(sll*)left;
	sll r = *(sll*)right;
	if (l < r) {
		return -1;
	}
	if (l > r) {
		return +1;
	}
	return 0;
}

int32_t pcharcomp (const void *left, const void *right) {
	char l = *(char*)left;
	char r = *(char*)right;
	if (l < r) {
		return -1;
	}
	if (l > r) {
		return +1;
	}
	return 0;
}

int32_t pstrcomp (const void *left, const void *right) {
	char* l = *(char**)left;
	char* r = *(char**)right;

	return strcmp(l, r);
}

int32_t phwllABcomp (const void *left, const void *right) {
	hwll l = *(hwll*)left;
	hwll r = *(hwll*)right;
	if (l.a < r.a) {
		return -1;
	}
	if (l.a > r.a) {
		return +1;
	}
	if (l.b < r.b) {
		return -1;
	}
	if (l.b > r.b) {
		return +1;
	}
	return 0;
}

int32_t phwllREVcomp (const void *left, const void *right) {
	hwll l = *(hwll*)left;
	hwll r = *(hwll*)right;
	if (l.b < r.b) {
		return -1;
	}
	if (l.b > r.b) {
		return +1;
	}
	if (l.a < r.a) {
		return -1;
	}
	if (l.a > r.a) {
		return +1;
	}
	return 0;
}

int32_t ptriplecomp (const void *left, const void *right) {
	hwllc l = *(hwllc*)left;
	hwllc r = *(hwllc*)right;

	if (l.a < r.a) {
		return -1;
	}
	if (l.a > r.a) {
		return +1;
	}
	if (l.b < r.b) {
		return -1;
	}
	if (l.b > r.b) {
		return +1;
	}
	if (l.c < r.c) {
		return -1;
	}
	if (l.c > r.c) {
		return +1;
	}
	return 0;
}

bool isinrange (sll left, sll x, sll right) {
	return (left <= x && x <= right);
}

bool isinrange_soft (sll left, sll x, sll right) {
	return (left <= x && x <= right) || (left >= x && x >= right);
}

ull parent[N_MAX];
ull rank[N_MAX];
void uf_init (ull n) {
	for (sll i = 0; i < n; i++) {
		parent[i] = i;
		rank[i] = 0;
	}
}
ull uf_find (ull x) {
	if (parent[x] == x) return x;
	return parent[x] = uf_find(parent[x]);
}
sll uf_union (ull a, ull b) {
	a = uf_find(a);
	b = uf_find(b);
	if (a == b) return -1;

	if (rank[a] > rank[b]) {
		a ^= (b ^= (a ^= b));
	}

	parent[a] = b;
	if (rank[a] == rank[b]) {
		rank[b]++;
	}

	return b;
}


sll a[N_MAX];
// sll a[3001][3001];
sll b[N_MAX];
// sll b[3001][3001];
sll c[N_MAX];
char s[N_MAX + 1];
// char s[3010][3010];
// char t[N_MAX + 1];
// char t[3010][3010];
// hwll xy[N_MAX];



ull solve () {
	sll i, j, ki, li;
	ull result = 0;
	// sll result = 0;
	double dresult = 0;
	// ull maybe = 0;
	sll maybe = 0;
	// ull sum = 0;
	sll sum = 0;
	sll item;
	ull *dpcell;

	i = 0;
	while (i < n) {
		j = i;
		while (i < n && a[i] == a[j]) i++;

		ull num = i - j;
		result += num / 2;
	}

	printf("%llu\n", result);
	// printf("%.15lf\n", dresult);
	// puts(s);

	return 0;

	success:
	// puts("YES");
	// puts("Yes");
	// printf("%llu\n", result);
	// puts("0");
	puts("Takahashi");
	return 0;

	fail:
	// puts("NO");
	// puts("No");
	// puts("0");
	// puts("-1");
	// puts("-1 -1 -1");
	puts("Aoki");
	return 1;
}

int32_t main (void) {
	int32_t i, j;
	int32_t x, y;

	// scanf("%lf%lf", &vda, &vdb, &vdc);
	// scanf("%lld%lld", &vsa, &vsb, &vsc, &vsd);
	// scanf("%llu%llu", &vua, &vub, &vuc, &vud);
	// scanf("%*llu%*llu");
	// scanf("%llu%llu", &h, &w);
	scanf("%llu", &n, &m);
	// scanf("%llu", &k, &n, &m);
	// scanf("%s", s);
	// scanf("%s", t);
	// scanf("%llu", &q);
	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
		// scanf("%lld%lld", &xy[i].a, &xy[i].b);
		scanf("%lld", &a[i]);
		// scanf("%lld", &b[i]);
		// scanf("%lld", &c[i]);
		// scanf("%lld", &t[i]);
		a[i]--;
		// b[i]--;
		// c[i]--;
	}
	// scanf("%llu%llu", &m, &k);
	// for (i = 0; i < w; i++) {
	// 	scanf("%llu", &b[i]);
	// 	// b[i]--;
	// }
	// scanf("%llu", &q);

	// for (i = 0; i < h; i++) {
	// 	for (j = 0; j < w; j++) {
	// 		scanf("%llu", &a[i][j]);
	// 	}
	// }
	// for (i = 0; i < h; i++) {
	// 	scanf("%s", &s[i]);
	// }

	solve();

	return 0;
}