Counting Liars
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Given N cows that each claim Bessie is at or below, or at or above, some p_i, find the fewest cows that must be lying.
- Level
Medium4 of 10
- Topics
- Sorting, Prefix sum, Array
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Problem
Bessie the cow is hiding somewhere along the number line. Each of Farmer John's other cows () has a piece of information to share: the -th cow either says that Bessie is hiding at some location less than or equal to , or that Bessie is hiding at some location greater than or equal to ().
It is possible that no hiding location is consistent with the answers of all of the cows, which means that not all of the cows are telling the truth. Count the minimum number of cows that must be lying.
Input
The first line contains .
The next lines each contain either L or G, followed by an integer . L means that the -th cow says that Bessie's hiding location is less than or equal to , and G means that the -th cow says that Bessie's hiding location is greater than or equal to .
Output
Print the minimum number of cows that must be lying.