from collections import deque x=deque([(1<<60,0,0)]) input();p=1;ans=0 for i in list(map(int,input().split())): while x[-1][0]<=i: a,b,c=x.pop() ans-=c if x[-1][1]!=p: d=i if p else -i ans+=d x.append((i,p,d)) else: x.append((i,p,0)) p^=1 print(ans)