HDU 5009 Paint Pearls （动态规划）Paint Pearls

Problem Description

Lee has a string of n pearls. In the beginning, all the pearls have no color. He plans to color the pearls to make it more fascinating. He drew his ideal pattern of the string on a paper and asks for your help. 

In each operation, he selects some continuous pearls and all these pearls will be painted to their target colors. When he paints a string which has k different target colors, Lee will cost k2 points. 

Now, Lee wants to cost as few as possible to get his ideal string. You should tell him the minimal cost.

Input

There are multiple test cases. Please process till EOF.

For each test case, the first line contains an integer n(1 ≤ n ≤ 5×104), indicating the number of pearls. The second line contains a1,a2,...,an (1 ≤ ai ≤ 109) indicating the target color of each pearl.

Output

For each test case, output the minimal cost in a line.

Sample Input

3

1 3 3

10

3 4 2 4 4 2 4 3 2 2

Sample Output

2

7

Source

<a target="_blank" href="http://acm.hdu.edu.cn/search.php?%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3Efield=problem&amp;key=2014+ACM%2FICPC+Asia+Regional+Xi%27an+Online&amp;source=1&amp;searchmode=source">2014 ACM/ICPC Asia Regional Xi'an Online</a>

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题目大意：

           给定一系列的颜色。能够划分为随意多个随意大小的区间。每一个区间的花费为 区间颜色数的平方，问你总花费最小是多少？

解题思路：

         用动态规划，双向链表事实上就是维护前面不同的元素，同样的元素删除。

解题代码：

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