Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

There is an integer sequence A of length N whose values are unknown.

Given is an integer sequence B of length N-1 which is known to satisfy the following:

B_i \geq \max(A_i, A_{i+1})

Find the maximum possible sum of the elements of A.

Constraints

All values in input are integers.

2 \leq N \leq 100

0 \leq B_i \leq 10^5

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N
B_1 B_2 ... B_{N-1}

Output

Print the maximum possible sum of the elements of A.

Sample Input 1

3
2 5

Sample Output 1

9

A can be, for example, ( 2 , 1 , 5 ), ( -1 , -2 , -3 ), or ( 2 , 2 , 5 ). Among those candidates, A = ( 2 , 2 , 5 ) has the maximum possible sum.

Sample Input 2

2
3

Sample Output 2

6

Sample Input 3

6
0 153 10 10 23

Sample Output 3

53

Solution in C (GCC 5.4.1) (judge verdict: Accepted)

#include<stdio.h>

int return_min(int a,int b)
{
  if(a>b){
    return b;
  }else{
    return a;
  }
}

int main(void)
{
  int n;
  scanf("%d",&n);
  int a[n];
  int b[n-1];
  for(int i=0;i<n-1;i++){
    scanf("%d",&b[i]);
  }
  a[0]=b[0];
  a[n-1]=b[n-2];
  for(int i=1;i<n-1;i++){
    a[i]=return_min(b[i-1],b[i]);
  }
  int result=0;
  for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
    result+=a[i];
  }
  printf("%d\n",result);
  return 0;
}