#include<bits/stdc++.h>
#define int long long
using namespace std;
int dp[100005], n, h[100005];
const int MOD = 1e9 + 7;
main() {
cin >> n;
for (int i = 1; i <= n; ++i) {
cin >> h[i];
}
dp[1] = 0;
dp[2] = abs(h[2] - h[1]);
for (int i = 3; i <= n; ++i) {
dp[i] = min(dp[i - 1] + abs(h[i - 1] - h[i])
, dp[i - 2] + abs(h[i - 2] - h[i]));
}
cout << dp[n];
}
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