USACO 2021 February Contest, Platinum Problem 1. No Time To Cry
No Time To Dry
Bessie has recently received a painting set, and she wants to paint the long fence at one end of her pasture. The fence consists of N consecutive 1-meter segments (1≤N≤2⋅105). Bessie has N different colors available, which she labels with the letters 1 through N in increasing order of darkness (1 is a very light color, and N is very dark). She can therefore describe the desired color she wants to paint each fence segment as an array of N integers.
Initially, all fence segments are uncolored. Bessie can color any contiguous range of segments with a single color in a single brush stroke as long as she never paints a lighter color over a darker color (she can only paint darker colors over lighter colors).
For example, an initially uncolored segment of length four can be colored as follows:
0000 -> 1110 -> 1122 -> 1332
Unfortunately, Bessie doesn’t have time to waste watching paint dry. Thus, Bessie thinks she may need to leave some fence segments unpainted! Currently, she is considering Q candidate ranges (1≤Q≤2⋅105), each described by two integers (a,b) with 1≤a≤b≤N giving the indices of endpoints of the range a…b of segments to be painted.
For each candidate range, what is the minimum number of strokes needed to paint every fence segment inside the range with its desired color while leaving all fence segments outside the range uncolored? Note that Bessie does not actually do any painting during this process, so the answers for each candidate range are independent.
题目大意:Bessie要给长度为N(1 ≤ \leq ≤N ≤ 2 \leq2 ≤2 × \times × 105 )的栅栏染色,其中第i处的颜色为Ci。她每次可以给一个区间染成同一个颜色,但是她不能把更浅的颜色涂在更深的颜色上(Ci越小颜色越浅)。现在Bessie给出Q个询问(1 ≤ \leq