/*   こんにちは。あたしはカウガール。   redcoderになるためAtCoderを巡る旅をしてます。       __     ヽ|__|ノ    モォ     ||‘‐‘||レ  _)_, ―‐ 、     /(Y (ヽ_ /・ ヽ    ̄ヽ     ∠ _ ゝ  `^ヽ ノ.::::_(ノヽ      _/ヽ     /ヽ ̄ ̄/ヽ */ #include using namespace std; typedef long long ll; #define dump(x) cout << #x << " = " << (x) << endl #define YES(n) cout << ((n) ? "YES" : "NO" ) << endl #define Yes(n) cout << ((n) ? "Yes" : "No" ) << endl #define POSSIBLE(n) cout << ((n) ? "POSSIBLE" : "IMPOSSIBLE" ) << endl #define Possible(n) cout << ((n) ? "Possible" : "Impossible" ) << endl #define rep(i, n) REP(i, 0, n) // 0, 1, ..., n-1 #define REP(i, x, n) for(int i = x; i < n; i++) // x, x + 1, ..., n-1 #define FOREACH(x,a) for(auto& (x) : (a) ) #define ALL(v) (v).begin() , (v).end() #define RALL(v) (v).rbegin(), (v).rend() #define COUT(x) cout << (x) << endl template inline bool chmax(T& a, T b) { if (a < b) { a = b; return 1; } return 0; } template inline bool chmin(T& a, T b) { if (a > b) { a = b; return 1; } return 0; } int main(){ cin.tie(0); ios::sync_with_stdio(false); int n; cin >> n; vector a(n); rep(i, n) cin >> a[i]; int cnt = 0; rep(i, n - 2) { if(a[i] == a[i + 1] || a[i + 1] == a[i + 2] || a[i] == a[i + 2]) continue; vector b(3); b[0] = a[i]; b[1] = a[i + 1]; b[2] = a[i + 2]; sort(ALL(b)); if(b[1] == a[i] || b[1] == a[i + 2]) cnt++; } cout << cnt << endl; }