Can anyone suggest a DP solution for this problem?

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The problem is given here- Contest Page | CodeChef

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The problem is essentially asking for the longest increasing subsequence of the given sequence. The accepted answer here talks about how to solve this, first in O(N^2), then in O(NlogN). For the given constraints, the O(NlogN) solution is required.

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Oh damn! Now I see it. Thanx.

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