Maximum Element After Decreasing and Rearranging

You are given an array of positive integers arr. Perform some operations (possibly none) on arr so that it satisfies these conditions:

  • The value of the first element in arr must be 1.
  • The absolute difference between any 2 adjacent elements must be less than or equal to 1. In other words, abs(arr[i] - arr[i - 1]) <= 1 for each i where 1 <= i < arr.length (0-indexed). abs(x) is the absolute value of x.

There are 2 types of operations that you can perform any number of times:

  • Decrease the value of any element of arr to a smaller positive integer.
  • Rearrange the elements of arr to be in any order.

Return the maximum possible value of an element in arr after performing the operations to satisfy the conditions.

Example 1
Inputarr = [2,2,1,2,1]
Output2
We can satisfy the conditions by rearranging arr so it becomes [1,2,2,2,1], whose largest element is 2.
Example 2
Inputarr = [100,1,1000]
Output3
After rearranging to [1,100,1000] and decreasing the second and third elements, arr can become [1,2,3], whose largest element is 3.

Constraints

  • 1 <= arr.length <= 10^5
  • 1 <= arr[i] <= 10^9

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