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.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Arrays;

public class Main {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
		int N = sc.nextInt();
		int[] A = new int[N];
		sc.fill(A);

		int count = 0;
		boolean undefined = true;
		boolean increase = false;
		for (int i = 1; i < A.length; i++) {
			if (A[i - 1] != A[i]) {
				if (undefined) {
					increase = (A[i - 1] < A[i]);
					undefined = false;
				} else {
					if ((A[i - 1] < A[i] && !increase)
							|| A[i - 1] > A[i] && increase) {
						count++;
						undefined = true;
					}
				}
			}
		}

		System.out.println(count + 1);
	}

	private static boolean isDebug = System.getProperty("sun.desktop") != null;

	private static void debug(Object... o) {
		if (isDebug) {
			System.err.println(Arrays.deepToString(o));
		}
	}

	public static class Scanner {
		private BufferedInputStream inputStream;

		public Scanner(InputStream in) {
			inputStream = new BufferedInputStream(in);
		}

		public int nextInt() throws IOException {
			int num = 0;
			int sign = 1;

			int read = skip();
			if (read == '-') {
				sign = -1;
				read = inputStream.read();
			}

			do {
				num = num * 10 + sign * (read - 0x30);
			} while ((read = inputStream.read()) > 0x20);

			return num;
		}

		public void fill(int[] a) throws IOException {
			for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
				a[i] = nextInt();
			}
		}

		public void fill(int[] a, int[] b) throws IOException {
			if (a.length != b.length) {
				throw new IllegalArgumentException();
			}

			for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
				a[i] = nextInt();
				b[i] = nextInt();
			}
		}

		public void fill(int[] a, int[] b, int[] c) throws IOException {
			if (a.length != b.length || b.length != c.length) {
				throw new IllegalArgumentException();
			}

			for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
				a[i] = nextInt();
				b[i] = nextInt();
				c[i] = nextInt();
			}
		}

		public long nextLong() throws IOException {
			long num = 0;

			int read = skip();
			do {
				num = num * 10 + (read - 0x30);
			} while ((read = inputStream.read()) > 0x20);

			return num;
		}

		public void fill(long[] a) throws IOException {
			for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
				a[i] = nextLong();
			}
		}

		public void fill(long[] a, long[] b) throws IOException {
			if (a.length != b.length) {
				throw new IllegalArgumentException();
			}

			for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
				a[i] = nextLong();
				b[i] = nextLong();
			}
		}

		public long[] nextLong(int n) throws IOException {
			long[] array = new long[n];
			for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
				array[i] = nextLong();
			}

			return array;
		}

		public String next() throws IOException {
			StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

			int read = skip();
			do {
				builder.append((char) read);
			} while ((read = inputStream.read()) > 0x20);

			return builder.toString();
		}

		private int skip() throws IOException {
			int read;
			while ((read = inputStream.read()) <= 0x20)
				;

			return read;
		}
	}
}