#K35052. Deepest Reply Depth
Deepest Reply Depth
Deepest Reply Depth
Given a list of messages, each represented as a pair of integers (message ID, replied-to message ID), determine the depth of the deepest nested reply. A message with a replied-to message ID of 0 is considered a top-level post with a depth of 1. For any other message, its depth is one plus the depth of the message it replies to.
For example, consider the list of messages:
[(1, 0), (2, 1), (3, 2), (4, 1), (5, 0)]
The deepest reply depth is 3.
Your task is to compute and output the deepest reply depth based on the provided input.
inputFormat
The first line contains a single integer n, the number of messages. Each of the next n lines contains two space-separated integers a and b, where a is the message ID and b is the replied-to message ID (0 indicates a top-level post).
outputFormat
Output a single integer representing the depth of the deepest nested reply.## sample
5
1 0
2 1
3 2
4 1
5 0
3
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