Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

You are given an array A of length N.
Your task is to divide it into several contiguous subarrays.
Here, all subarrays obtained must be sorted in either non-decreasing or non-increasing order.
At least how many subarrays do you need to divide A into?

Constraints

1 \leq N \leq 10^5

1 \leq A_i \leq 10^9

Each A_i is an integer.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N
A_1 A_2 ... A_N

Output

Print the minimum possible number of subarrays after division of A.

Sample Input 1

6
1 2 3 2 2 1

Sample Output 1

2

One optimal solution is to divide the array into [1,2,3] and [2,2,1].

Sample Input 2

9
1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1

Sample Output 2

5

Sample Input 3

7
1 2 3 2 1 999999999 1000000000

Sample Output 3

3

Solution in Java8 (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;

public class Main {
	int N;
	int[] A;
	public void solve(){
		N = nextInt();
		A = new int[N];
		for(int i = 0;i < N;i++){
			A[i] = nextInt();
		}

		int ans = 0;
		int i = 0;
		for(;i < N;){
			int j = i+1;
			int k = i+1;
			while(j < N && A[j-1] <= A[j])j++;
			while(k < N && A[k-1] >= A[k])k++;

			if(j < k){
				i = k;
			}else{
				i = j;
			}
			ans++;
		}
		out.println(ans);
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		out.flush();
		new Main().solve();
		out.close();
	}

	/* Input */
	private static final InputStream in = System.in;
	private static final PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(System.out);
	private final byte[] buffer = new byte[2048];
	private int p = 0;
	private int buflen = 0;

	private boolean hasNextByte() {
		if (p < buflen)
			return true;
		p = 0;
		try {
			buflen = in.read(buffer);
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		if (buflen <= 0)
			return false;
		return true;
	}

	public boolean hasNext() {
		while (hasNextByte() && !isPrint(buffer[p])) {
			p++;
		}
		return hasNextByte();
	}

	private boolean isPrint(int ch) {
		if (ch >= '!' && ch <= '~')
			return true;
		return false;
	}

	private int nextByte() {
		if (!hasNextByte())
			return -1;
		return buffer[p++];
	}

	public String next() {
		if (!hasNext())
			throw new NoSuchElementException();
		StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
		int b = -1;
		while (isPrint((b = nextByte()))) {
			sb.appendCodePoint(b);
		}
		return sb.toString();
	}

	public int nextInt() {
		return Integer.parseInt(next());
	}

	public long nextLong() {
		return Long.parseLong(next());
	}

	public double nextDouble() {
		return Double.parseDouble(next());
	}
}