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The operation of subtraction is not associative, e.g. , but , therefore . It implies that the value of the expression of the form depends on the order of performing subtractions. Usually in lack of brackets we assume that the operations are performed from left to right, i.e. the expression is equivalent to the expression .
We are given an expression of the form
where each denotes either (plus) or (minus), and denote (pairwise) distinct variables. In an expression of the form
we want to insert pairs of brackets to unambiguously determine the order of performing subtractions and, in the same time, to obtain an expression equivalent to the given one. For example, if we want to obtain an expression equivalent to the expression
we may insert brackets into
as follows:
Note: We are interested only in fully and correctly bracketed expressions. An expression is fully and correctly bracketed when it is
Informally speaking, we are not interested in expressions containing spare brackets like: , , . But the expression is not fully bracketed because it lacks the outermost brackets.
Write a program which:
In the first line of the standard input there is one integer , . This is the number of variables in the given expression. In each of the following lines there is one character: or . In the -th line there is the sign appearing between and in the given expression.
In the first line of the standard output your program should write one integer equal to the number of different ways (modulus ) in which pairs of brackets may be inserted into the expression so as to unambiguously determine the order of performing subtractions and, in the same time, to obtain an expression equivalent to the given one.
For the input data:
7 - - + + - +
the correct result is:
3
Task authors: Piotr Chrzastowski-Wachtel, Wojciech Guzicki.