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 Java (OpenJDK 11.0.6) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.IOException;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
    int n = Integer.parseInt(in.readLine());
    String[] str = in.readLine().split(" ");
    int[] b = new int[n-1];
    for(int i=0; i<n-1; i++) {
      b[i] = Integer.parseInt(str[i]);
    }
    
    int aSum = 0;
    if(n>=3) {
      aSum += b[0];
      for(int i=0; i<n-1; i++) {
        if(i==n-2)
          aSum += b[i];
        else
          aSum += Math.min(b[i],b[i+1]);
      }
    }
    
    System.out.println(n==2?b[0]*2:aSum);
  }
}