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Key Idea: Sliding window keeping the last-seen position of every song, shrinking the window whenever a repeat appears.
Solution
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
//author: von_Braun
#define ll long long
#define lli long long int
#define pb push_back
#define rep(var, start, num) for(ll var = start; var <start + num; var++)
#define all(x) x.begin(), x.end()
#define ulli unsigned long long int
#define ull unsigned long long
bool sortbysec(const pair<ll,ll> &a,const pair<ll,ll> &b) { return (a.second < b.second); }
void solve() {
ll n;
cin>>n;
vector<ll> a(n);
rep(i,0,n) {cin>>a[i];}
map<ll,bool> seen;
map<ll,ll> pos;
ll ans=0;
ll runans=0;
rep(i,0,n) {
if (seen[a[i]]) {runans=min(i-pos[a[i]], runans+1); pos[a[i]]=i;} else {runans++; seen[a[i]]=1; pos[a[i]]=i;}
ans=max(ans,runans);
}
cout<<ans<<endl;
}
int main() {
//add quotes incase input output file
//freopen(input.txt,r,stdin);
//freopen(output.txt,w,stdout);
ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);
cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0);
int tc = 1;
// cin >> tc;
for (int t = 1; t <= tc; t++) {
solve();
}
}