What if a value was over 50? What if your data looks like this?
Data ex1;
Input number ;
Cards;
3
9
22
34
49
3
33
50
51
12
23
34
48
;
See if this works for you 🙂
data ex2(drop=lagnum);
set ex1;
if _N_=1 then seq=1;
lagnum=lag1(number);
if lagnum gt number then seq+1;
run;
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