#include<iostream> #include<cstdio> using namespace std; int main(){ int n,a[20000],ans=0; cin>>n; for(int i=1;i<=n;i++){ cin>>a[i]; } for(int i=2;i<n;i++){ if(a[i-1]>a[i]&&a[i+1]>a[i])ans++; } cout<<ans<<endl; return 0; }