Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

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:

Specify integers l and r. Increase the height of Flower x by 1 for all x such that l \leq x \leq r.

Find the minimum number of watering operations required to satisfy the condition.

Constraints

1 \leq N \leq 100

0 \leq h_i \leq 100

All values in input are integers.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N
h_1 h_2 h_3 ...... h_N

Output

Print the minimum number of watering operations required to satisfy the condition.

Sample Input 1

4
1 2 2 1

Sample Output 1

2

The minimum number of watering operations required is 2.
One way to achieve it is:

Perform the operation with (l,r)=(1,3).

Perform the operation with (l,r)=(2,4).

Sample Input 2

5
3 1 2 3 1

Sample Output 2

5

Sample Input 3

8
4 23 75 0 23 96 50 100

Sample Output 3

221

Solution in C# (Mono 4.6.2.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

using System.Collections;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var N = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
        var h = Console.ReadLine().Split(' ').Select(s => int.Parse(s)).ToArray();

        Console.WriteLine(count(h));
    }

    static int count(IEnumerable<int> seq)
    {        
        if(seq.Any() == false)
        {
            return 0;
        }

        var ans = seq.Min();
        
        seq = seq.Select(n => n - ans).ToArray();

        while(seq.Any())
        {
            ans += count(seq.TakeWhile(n => n != 0));
            seq = seq.SkipWhile(n => n != 0).SkipWhile(n => n == 0);
        }

        return ans;
    }
    
}