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 Java8 (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
//import java.math.*;
//import java.awt.Point;
 
public class Main {
	//static final long MOD = 998244353L;
	//static final long INF = -1000000000000000007L;
	static final long MOD = 1000000007L;
	//static final int INF = 1000000007;
	
	
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		FastScanner sc = new FastScanner();
		PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(System.out);
		int N = sc.ni();
		int[] nums = new int[N];
		int ans = 0;
		for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
			nums[i] = sc.ni();
			ans += nums[i];
		}
		for (int size = N; size >= 1; size--) {
			for (int L = 0; L <= N-size; L++) {
				int R = L+size-1;
				int min = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
				for (int i = L; i <= R; i++) {
					min = Math.min(min,nums[i]);
				}
				ans -= (size-1)*min;
				for (int i = L; i <= R; i++) {
					nums[i] -= min;
				}
			}
		}
		pw.println(ans);
		pw.close();
	}
	
	public static long dist(long[] p1, long[] p2) {
		return (Math.abs(p2[0]-p1[0])+Math.abs(p2[1]-p1[1]));
	}
	
	//Find the GCD of two numbers
	public static long gcd(long a, long b) {
		if (a < b) return gcd(b,a);
		if (b == 0)
			return a;
		else
			return gcd(b,a%b);
	}
	
	//Fast exponentiation (x^y mod m)
	public static long power(long x, long y, long m) { 
		long ans = 1;
		x %= m;
		while (y > 0) { 
			if(y % 2 == 1) 
				ans = (ans * x) % m; 
			y /= 2;  
			x = (x * x) % m;
		} 
		return ans; 
	}
	
	public static int[][] shuffle(int[][] array) {
		Random rgen = new Random();
		for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
		    int randomPosition = rgen.nextInt(array.length);
		    int[] temp = array[i];
		    array[i] = array[randomPosition];
		    array[randomPosition] = temp;
		}
		return array;
	}
	
    public static int[][] sort(int[][] array) {
    	//Sort an array (immune to quicksort TLE)
 
		Arrays.sort(array, new Comparator<int[]>() {
			  @Override
        	  public int compare(int[] arr1, int[] arr2) {
				  return arr1[0]-arr2[0]; //ascending order
	          }
		});
		return array;
	}
    
    public static long[][] sort(long[][] array) {
    	//Sort an array (immune to quicksort TLE)
		Random rgen = new Random();
		for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
		    int randomPosition = rgen.nextInt(array.length);
		    long[] temp = array[i];
		    array[i] = array[randomPosition];
		    array[randomPosition] = temp;
		}
		Arrays.sort(array, new Comparator<long[]>() {
			  @Override
        	  public int compare(long[] arr1, long[] arr2) {
				  //return 0;
				  if (arr1[0] < arr2[0]) {
					  return -1;
				  } else if (arr1[0] > arr2[0]) {
					  return 1;
				  } else {
					  return 0;
				  }
	          }
		});
		return array;
	}
    
    static class FastScanner { 
        BufferedReader br; 
        StringTokenizer st; 
  
        public FastScanner() { 
            br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); 
        } 
  
        String next() { 
            while (st == null || !st.hasMoreElements()) { 
                try { 
                    st = new StringTokenizer(br.readLine());
                } catch (IOException  e) { 
                    e.printStackTrace(); 
                } 
            } 
            return st.nextToken(); 
        } 
  
        int ni() { 
            return Integer.parseInt(next()); 
        } 
  
        long nl() { 
            return Long.parseLong(next()); 
        } 
  
        double nd() { 
            return Double.parseDouble(next()); 
        } 
  
        String nextLine() { 
            String str = ""; 
            try { 
                str = br.readLine(); 
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace(); 
            } 
            return str;
        }
    }
}