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 PyPy3 (7.3.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import bisect, copy, heapq, math, sys
from collections import *
from functools import lru_cache
from itertools import accumulate, combinations, permutations, product

def input():
    return sys.stdin.readline()[:-1]
def ruiseki(lst):
    return [0]+list(accumulate(lst))
def celi(a,b):
    return -(-a//b)
sys.setrecursionlimit(5000000)
mod=pow(10,9)+7
al=[chr(ord('a') + i) for i in range(26)]
direction=[[1,0],[0,1],[-1,0],[0,-1]]

n=int(input())
a=list(map(int,input().split()))

ans=0
flag=-1

for i in range(n-1):
    if flag==-1:
        if a[i]>a[i+1]:
            flag=0
        elif a[i]<a[i+1]:
            flag=1
    elif flag==1:
        if a[i]>a[i+1]:
            flag=-1
            ans+=1
    else:
        if a[i]<a[i+1]:
            flag=-1
            ans+=1

print(ans+1)