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 Java8 (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

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

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        try (BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in))) {
            int N = readInt(reader);
            int[] B = readIntArray(reader);

            int sum = 0;
            sum += B[0] + B[N - 2];
            for (int i = 1; i < N - 1; i++) {
                sum += Math.min(B[i - 1], B[i]);
            }

            System.out.println(sum);
        }
    }

    public static int readInt(BufferedReader reader) throws Exception {
        return Integer.parseInt(reader.readLine());
    }

    public static int[] readIntArray(BufferedReader reader) throws Exception {
        String[] str = reader.readLine().split(" ");
        int[] array = new int[str.length];
        for (int i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
            array[i] = Integer.parseInt(str[i]);
        }
        return array;
    }

}