Problem:
Score : 400 points

Problem Statement

There are N islands lining up from west to east, connected by N-1 bridges.

The i-th bridge connects the i-th island from the west and the (i+1)-th island from the west.

One day, disputes took place between some islands, and there were M requests from the inhabitants of the islands:

Request i: A dispute took place between the a_i-th island from the west and the b_i-th island from the west. Please make traveling between these islands with bridges impossible.

You decided to remove some bridges to meet all these M requests.

Find the minimum number of bridges that must be removed.

Constraints

All values in input are integers.

2 \leq N \leq 10^5

1 \leq M \leq 10^5

1 \leq a_i < b_i \leq N

All pairs (a_i, b_i) are distinct.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N M
a_1 b_1
a_2 b_2
:
a_M b_M

Output

Print the minimum number of bridges that must be removed.

Sample Input 1

5 2
1 4
2 5

Sample Output 1

1

The requests can be met by removing the bridge connecting the second and third islands from the west.

Sample Input 2

9 5
1 8
2 7
3 5
4 6
7 9

Sample Output 2

2

Sample Input 3

5 10
1 2
1 3
1 4
1 5
2 3
2 4
2 5
3 4
3 5
4 5

Sample Output 3

4

Solution in Scala (2.11.7) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import java.util.Scanner

import scala.collection.Searching._
import scala.annotation.tailrec
import scala.collection.mutable
import scala.collection.immutable._
import scala.io.StdIn.readLine

import java.io._
import java.nio.file.{Files, Path}
import java.util.StringTokenizer

import scala.io.Codec

/**
  * Scala implementation of a faster java.util.Scanner
  * See: http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/7018
  */
class Scanner(reader: LineNumberReader) extends Iterable[String] with AutoCloseable {
  def this(reader: BufferedReader) = this(new LineNumberReader(reader))

  def this(reader: Reader) = this(new BufferedReader(reader))

  def this(inputStream: InputStream)(implicit codec: Codec) = this(new InputStreamReader(inputStream, codec.charSet))

  def this(path: Path)(implicit codec: Codec) = this(Files.newBufferedReader(path, codec.charSet))

  def this(file: File)(implicit codec: Codec) = this(file.toPath)(codec)

  def this(str: String) = this(new StringReader(str))

  override def iterator = for {
    line <- Iterator.continually(reader.readLine()).takeWhile(_ != null)
    tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(line)
    tokens <- Iterator.continually(tokenizer).takeWhile(_.hasMoreTokens)
  } yield tokens.nextToken()

  private[this] var current = iterator

  def hasNext = current.hasNext

  @inline def next() = current.next()

  /**
    * This is different from Java's scanner.nextLine
    * The Java one is a misnomer since it actually travel to end of current line
    * This one actually does fetch the next line
    */
  def nextLine(): String = {
    val line = reader.readLine()
    current = iterator
    line
  }

  def lineNumber: Int = reader.getLineNumber

  def nextString(): String = next()

  def nextBoolean(): Boolean = next().toBoolean

  def nextByte(radix: Int = 10): Byte = java.lang.Byte.parseByte(next(), radix)

  def nextShort(radix: Int = 10): Short = java.lang.Short.parseShort(next(), radix)

  def nextInt(radix: Int = 10): Int = java.lang.Integer.parseInt(next(), radix)

  def nextLong(radix: Int = 10): Long = java.lang.Long.parseLong(next(), radix)

  def nextBigInt(radix: Int = 10): BigInt = BigInt(next(), radix)

  def nextFloat(): Float = next().toFloat

  def nextDouble(): Double = next().toDouble

  def nextBigDecimal(): BigDecimal = BigDecimal(next())

  override def close() = reader.close()
}


class IUnionFind(val size: Int) {

  private case class Node(var parent: Option[Int], var treeSize: Int)

  private val nodes = Array.fill[Node](size)(new Node(None, 1))

  def union(t1: Int, t2: Int): IUnionFind = {
    if (t1 == t2) return this

    val root1 = root(t1)
    val root2 = root(t2)
    if (root1 == root2) return this

    val node1 = nodes(root1)
    val node2 = nodes(root2)

    if (node1.treeSize < node2.treeSize) {
      node1.parent = Some(t2)
      node2.treeSize += node1.treeSize
    } else {
      node2.parent = Some(t1)
      node1.treeSize += node2.treeSize
    }
    this
  }

  def connected(t1: Int, t2: Int): Boolean = t1 == t2 || root(t1) == root(t2)

  def root(t: Int): Int = nodes(t).parent match {
    case None => t
    case Some(p) => {
      nodes(t).parent = Some(root(p))
      nodes(t).parent.get
    }
  }
}

object Main {
  def solve(sc: => Scanner): Unit = {
    val N, M = sc.nextInt()
    val A = Array.fill(M)((sc.nextLong(), sc.nextLong())).sortWith((a, b) => a._2 < b._2)
    println(recursive(0, A, 0))
  }

  def recursive(now: Long, A: => Array[(Long, Long)], idx: Int): Long = {
    if (A.length == idx) (0) else if (A(idx)._1 < now && now <= A(idx)._2) (recursive(now, A, idx + 1)) else (1 + recursive(A(idx)._2, A, idx + 1))
  }

  def recursive2(N: Long): String = {
    if (N == 0) ("") else (('a'.toInt + (N % 26)).toChar + recursive2(N / 26))
  }

  def check(A: Array[List[Int]]): Boolean = {
    A.map(_.size == 0).fold(true)((a, b) => a & b)
  }

  def shift(n: Long): Long = {
    if (n == 0) (0) else if (n == 1) (1) else (shift(n - 1) << 1)
  }

  def unShift(n: Long): Long = {
    if (n == 0) (0) else (unShift(n >> 1) + 1)
  }

  def gcd(i: Long, j: Long): Long = {
    if (i < j) (gcd(j, i)) else (if (j == 0) (i) else (gcd(j, i % j)))
  }

  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
    val sc: Scanner = new Scanner(System.in)
    solve(sc)
  }
}

object Util {
  def getPermutation(begin: Long = 0): Stream[Long] =
    Stream.cons(begin, getPermutation(begin + 1))

  def getPrimeList(): Stream[Long] =
    getPrimeListRecursive(getPermutation(begin = 2))

  private def getPrimeListRecursive(A: Stream[Long]): Stream[Long] =
    Stream.cons(A.head, getPrimeListRecursive(A.tail.filter(_ % A.head != 0)))

  def fib(a: Long = 0, b: Long = 1, mod: Long = Long.MaxValue): Stream[Long] = a #:: fib(b % mod, (a + b) % mod, mod)
}

object ArabicRoman {

  type =?>[A, B] = PartialFunction[A, B]

  val codeTable = List(
    (1000, "M"), (900, "CM"), (500, "D"), (400, "CD"), (100, "C"),
    (90, "XC"), (50, "L"), (40, "XL"), (10, "X"), (9, "IX"), (5, "V"), (4, "IV"), (1, "I"))

  val arabicToRoman: (Int) =?> String = {
    case src if (src >= 1 && src <= 3999) => {

      def convert(left: Int, cont: String = "", code: List[(Int, String)] = codeTable): String = {
        val (unitVal, unitChar) = code.head
        left - unitVal match {
          case n if (n == 0) => cont + unitChar
          case n if (n > 0) => convert(n, cont + unitChar, code)
          case _ => convert(left, cont, code.tail)
        }
      }

      convert(src)
    }
  }

  val romanToArabic: (String) =?> Int = {
    case src if (Option(src).exists { s => {
      s.nonEmpty && ("""[^MDCLXVI]""".r.findFirstMatchIn(s.toUpperCase) == None)
    }
    }) => {

      def convert(left: String, cont: Int = 0, code: List[(Int, String)] = codeTable): Int = {
        val (unitVal, unitChar) = code.head
        left.splitAt(unitChar.length) match {
          case ("", _) => cont
          case (`unitChar`, tail) => convert(tail, cont + unitVal, code)
          case _ => convert(left, cont, code.tail)
        }
      }

      convert(src.toUpperCase())
    }
  }
}