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: Runtime Error)

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try (Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);) {
            new Main().solve(sc);
        }
    }

    void solve(Scanner sc) {
        int n = sc.nextInt();
        int tmp = sc.nextInt();
        int preA = sc.nextInt();
        int slope = Integer.signum(preA - tmp);
        int ans = 1;
        for (int i = 2; i < n; i++) {
            int a = sc.nextInt();
            int tmpSlope = Integer.signum(a - preA);
            if (slope * tmpSlope < 0) {
                ans++;
            }
            
            slope = tmpSlope;
            preA = a;
        }
        System.out.println(ans);
    }
}