[Tutor] python programmin problem

[Alan Gauld]

On 20/07/16 22:11, monikajg at netzero.net wrote:
> ... if not in python, then in pseudo code.

The first question to ask is can you do it without a computer?
In other words given

input [1,7,2,3,5,4,6]

Can you first of all produce a list of all valid runs?

[1,2,3,5,6] and [1,2,3,4,6] both have length 5

I also see shorter runs:

[7] and [4,6] for example.

Can you manually create a list of all valid runs?

Once you can do that can you write a program to
generate that as a list of lists in Python?

If so then the answer to your question is a matter of
finding the length of the longest valid run which
should be fairly easy.

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