/* package whatever; // don't place package name! */
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.io.*;
/* Name of the class has to be "Main" only if the class is public. */
class Ideone
{
{
// your code goes here
Scanner sc
= new Scanner
(System.
in); int n = sc.nextInt();
int a[] = new int[n];
for(int i=0;i<n; i++){
a[i]=sc.nextInt();
}
int dp[] = new int[n];
//base cases
dp[0]= 0;
dp
[1]= Math.
abs(a
[1]-a
[0]);
int i=2;
while(i<n){
dp
[i
] = Math.
min(Math.
abs(a
[i
]-a
[i
-1])+dp
[i
-1],
Math.
abs(a
[i
]-a
[i
-2]+dp
[i
-2])); i++;
}
}
}
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