Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

Find the maximum possible sum of the digits (in base 10) of a positive integer not greater than N.

Constraints

1\leq N \leq 10^{16}

N is an integer.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N

Output

Print the maximum possible sum of the digits (in base 10) of a positive integer not greater than N.

Sample Input 1

100

Sample Output 1

18

For example, the sum of the digits in 99 is 18, which turns out to be the maximum value.

Sample Input 2

9995

Sample Output 2

35

For example, the sum of the digits in 9989 is 35, which turns out to be the maximum value.

Sample Input 3

3141592653589793

Sample Output 3

137

Solution in Java (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import java.io.*;
import java.math.*;
import java.util.*;
public class Main { 
 
	public static void main(String[] args) { //Partition babyyyyyyyyy
		FastScanner I = new FastScanner(); //Input
		OutPut O = new OutPut(); //Output
		String S = I.next();
		int N = S.length();
		int[] dig = new int[N];
		int ans = 0;
		for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
			dig[i] = Integer.parseInt(S.substring(i,i+1));
			ans+=dig[i];
		}
		//Optimize
		for (int upd = 0; upd<N; upd++) {
			int cursum = 0;
			for (int prev = 0; prev<upd;prev++) {
				cursum+=dig[prev];
			}
			cursum+=dig[upd]-1; //Decrement current
			cursum+=(N-upd-1)*9; //-1 to convert to 1 based indexing
			ans=Math.max(ans, cursum);
		}
		O.pln(ans);
	}
	public static long ceil(long num, long den) {long ans = num/den; if (num%den!=0) 
	ans++; return ans;}
	public static long GCD(long a, long b) {
		if (a==0||b==0) return Math.max(a,b);
		return GCD(Math.min(a, b),Math.max(a, b)%Math.min(a, b));
	}
	public static long FastExp(long base, long exp, long mod) {
		long ans=1;
		while (exp>0) {
			if (exp%2==1) ans*=base;
			exp/=2;
			base*=base;
			base%=mod;
			ans%=mod;
		}
		return ans;
	}
	public static long ModInv(long num,long mod) {return FastExp(num,mod-2,mod);}
	static class FastScanner {
		BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
		StringTokenizer st=new StringTokenizer("");
		String next() {
			while (!st.hasMoreTokens())
				try {
					st=new StringTokenizer(br.readLine());
				} catch (IOException e) {
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			return st.nextToken();
		}
		int nextInt() {return Integer.parseInt(next());}
		long nextLong() {return Long.parseLong(next());};
	}
	static class OutPut{
		PrintWriter w = new PrintWriter(System.out);
		void pln(int x) {w.println(x);w.flush();}
		void pln(long x) {w.println(x);w.flush();}
		void pln(String x) {w.println(x);w.flush();}
		void pln(char x) {w.println(x);w.flush();}
		void pln(StringBuilder x) {w.println(x);w.flush();}
		void p(int x) {w.print(x);w.flush();}
		void p(long x) {w.print(x);w.flush();}
		void p(String x) {w.print(x);w.flush();}
		void p(char x) {w.print(x);w.flush();}
		void p(StringBuilder x) {w.print(x);w.flush();}
	}
}