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Staircase Nim

Difficulty: 2100 4000 ms 128 MB

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Coins sit on stairs 1..N (ai coins on stair i). A move slides any positive number of coins from stair i down to stair i−1; coins reaching the ground (below stair 1) are gone. The player unable to move loses. Determine the winner.

Input: the first line has N; the second line has the N coin counts.

Output: FIRST or SECOND.

Constraints:

  • 1 ≤ N ≤ 105
  • 0 ≤ ai ≤ 109

Sample Tests

Input 1
3
1 2 3
Output 1
FIRST
Input 2
2
0 5
Output 2
SECOND

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