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By Pirate_King, history, 10 months ago, In English

What happened to zh0ukangyang ??
Did this account get deleted as he had one more in top 10 ?

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By Pirate_King, history, 12 months ago, In English

I'll keep it short.

Bob has an element x and Alice has a permutation p of size n.

Alice goes through the permutation sequentially and asks Bob what is the relation between x and p[i] .

if p[i] < x + 0.5 Bob replies '<' otherwise Bob replies '>'.

Ex: x = 2 and p = [1,3,2] gives us a string "<><" .

Now Alice is smart and does not ask unnecessary questions.

Ex: x = 2 and p = [3,4,1,2] will gives us a string "><<"

Here Alice ignores the 2nd element because in first question she determined that 3 > x+0.5 so of course 4 is also going to be greater than x+0.5 .

Let c be the number of times "><" occurs as a substring in our resultant string. Find all c for x in range 0 to n.

input:

6

5 1 2 4 3 6

output:

0 1 1 2 1 0 0

I did a brute force O(n^2) solution using stack but as expected got TLE in some tc's as n<=2*1e5. Can someone please guide me towards an efficient solution

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