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.Text;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using static System.Console;
using static System.Math;

namespace AtCoder
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            new Program().Solve(new ConsoleInput(Console.In, ' '));
#if DEBUG
            ReadLine();
#endif
        }

        void Solve(ConsoleInput cin)
        {
            int n = cin.ReadInt;
            int[] h_n = cin.ReadIntArray(n);

            long ans = 0;

            while (true)
            {
                bool start = false;
                for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
                {
                    if (!start)
                    {
                        if (h_n[i] > 0)
                        {
                            start = true;
                            h_n[i]--;
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        if (h_n[i] > 0)
                        {
                            h_n[i]--;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                }

                if (!start)
                {
                    break;
                }
                else
                {
                    ans++;
                }
            }

            Console.WriteLine(ans);
        }

        class ConsoleInput
        {
            private readonly System.IO.TextReader _stream;
            private char _separator = ' ';
            private Queue<string> inputStream;

            public ConsoleInput(System.IO.TextReader stream, char separator = ' ')
            {
                this._separator = separator;
                this._stream = stream;
                inputStream = new Queue<string>();
            }

            public string Read
            {
                get
                {
                    if (inputStream.Count != 0) return inputStream.Dequeue();
                    string[] tmp = _stream.ReadLine().Split(_separator);
                    for (int i = 0; i < tmp.Length; ++i)
                        inputStream.Enqueue(tmp[i]);
                    return inputStream.Dequeue();
                }
            }

            public string ReadLine { get { return _stream.ReadLine(); } }
            public int ReadInt { get { return int.Parse(Read); } }
            public long ReadLong { get { return long.Parse(Read); } }
            public double ReadDouble { get { return double.Parse(Read); } }
            public string[] ReadStrArray(long N) { var ret = new string[N]; for (long i = 0; i < N; ++i) ret[i] = Read; return ret; }
            public int[] ReadIntArray(long N) { var ret = new int[N]; for (long i = 0; i < N; ++i) ret[i] = ReadInt; return ret; }
            public long[] ReadLongArray(long N) { var ret = new long[N]; for (long i = 0; i < N; ++i) ret[i] = ReadLong; return ret; }
        }
    }
}