The Longest Spike
We will call a sequence of integers a spike if they first
increase (strictly) and then decrease (also strictly, including the last element of the increasing
part). For example (4, 5, 7, 6, 3, 2) is a spike, but
(1, 1, 5, 4, 3 and (1, 4, 3, 5) are not.
Note that the increasing and decreasing parts always intersect, e.g.: for spike
(3, 5, 2) sequence (3, 5) is an increasing
part and sequence (5, 2) is a decreasing part, and for
spike (2) sequence (2) is both an
increasing and a descreasing part.
You are given an array A of N integers. Your task is to calculate the length of the longest possible spike, which can be created from numbers from array A. Note that you are NOT supposed to find the longest spike as a sub-sequence of A, but rather choose some numbers from A and reorder them to create the longest spike.
Given an array A of integers of length N, returns the length of the longest spike which can be created from the numbers from A.
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