input();r=input() S = list(map(int, list(r))) count = 0 for i in range(1, len(S)): if S[i-1:i+1] == [0, 0]: count += 1 S[i] = 1 elif i >= 2 and S[i-2:i+1] == [0, 1, 0]: count += 1 S[i] = 1 print(count)