var _ = require('underscore'); function findIndex(input){ var len = input.length; var maxSeqEndingHere = _.range(len).map(function(){return 1;}); for(var i=0; i=0;j--) if(input[i] > input[j] && maxSeqEndingHere[j] >= maxSeqEndingHere[i]) maxSeqEndingHere[i] = maxSeqEndingHere[j]+1; return maxSeqEndingHere; } function findSequence(input, result){ var maxValue = Math.max.apply(null, result); var maxIndex = result.indexOf(Math.max.apply(Math, result)); var output = []; output.push(input[maxIndex]); for(var i = maxIndex ; i >= 0; i--){ if(maxValue==0)break; if(input[maxIndex] > input[i] && result[i] == maxValue-1){ output.push(input[i]); maxValue--; } } output.reverse(); return output; } var x = [0, 7, 8, 4, 12, 2, 10, 6, 14, 1, 9, 5, 13, 3, 11, 7, 15]; var y = [3, 2, 6, 4, 5, 1]; var result = findIndex(x); var final = findSequence(x, result); console.log(final); var result1 = findIndex(y); var final1 = findSequence(y, result1); console.log(final1);