Maximum Length Bitonic Subarray

in this editorial ,why we use inc[i]+dec[i] -1 ?

Hello @asif_h here as we have calculated the length of increasing and decreasing sequence until a point ‘x’.
So from this logic we are calculating the max length possible.

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