#K13326. Determine List Order

    ID: 23888 Type: Default 1000ms 256MiB

Determine List Order

Determine List Order

You are given a list of N integers. The task is to determine whether the list is strictly increasing, strictly decreasing, or neither.

A list is considered strictly increasing if every element is less than its following element, i.e. for all valid indices \( i \), the inequality \( a_i < a_{i+1} \) holds. Likewise, it is strictly decreasing if for all valid indices \( i \), we have \( a_i > a_{i+1} \). If neither condition is satisfied, the answer is NEITHER.

For example, given the list [1, 2, 3, 4] the output should be INCREASING whereas for the list [9, 7, 5, 3, 1] the output must be DECREASING.

inputFormat

The input is read from standard input (stdin) and consists of two lines:

  • The first line contains a single integer N representing the number of elements in the list.
  • The second line contains N space-separated integers.

outputFormat

Print a single line to standard output (stdout) with one of the following strings: INCREASING, DECREASING, or NEITHER depending on the order of the list.

## sample
4
1 2 3 4
INCREASING