How do I know the length of a Weyl group element from its Weyl orbit result

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How do I know the length of a Weyl group element from its Weyl orbit result? For example, I know that $[2,2]$ under $s_1s_2s_1$ transforms into $[-2,-2]$,but given the result, how can I tell $l(s_1s_2s_1)=3$?