2582.Approximating a Constant Range

Time Limit: 1s Memory Limit: 256MB

When Xellos was doing a practice course in university, he once had to measure the intensity of an effect that slowly approached equilibrium. A good way to determine the equilibrium intensity would be choosing a sufficiently large number of consecutive data points that seems as constant as possible and taking their average. Of course, with the usual sizes of data, it's nothing challenging- but why not make a similar programming contest problem while we're at it?

You're given a sequence of n data points a1,...,an. There aren't any big jumps between consecutive data points- for each 1 \le i \lt n, it's guaranteed that |ai+1-ai| \le 1.

A range [l,r] of data points is said to be almost constant if the difference between the largest and the smallest value in that range is at most 1. Formally, let M be the maximum and m the minimum value of ai for l \le i \le r; the range [l,r] is almost constant if M-m \le 1.

Find the length of the longest almost constant range.

Input Format(From the terminal/stdin)

The first line of the input contains a single integer n (2 \le n \le 100000)- the number of data points.

The second line contains n integers a1,a2,...,an (1 \le ai \le 100000).

Output Format(To the terminal/stdout)

Print a single number- the maximum length of an almost constant range of the given sequence.

Sample Input 1

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5
1 2 3 3 2
 \n
 · · · · \n

Sample Output 1

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4
 \n

Sample Input 2

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11
5 4 5 5 6 7 8 8 8 7 6
  \n
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Sample Output 2

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5
 \n

Hints

In the first sample, the longest almost constant range is [2,5]; its length (the number of data points in it) is 4.

In the second sample, there are three almost constant ranges of length 4: [1,4], [6,9] and [7,10]; the only almost constant range of the maximum length 5 is [6,10].

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