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 Java7 (OpenJDK 1.7.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.FilterInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Built using CHelper plug-in
 * Actual solution is at the top
 *
 * @author Jenish
 */
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        InputStream inputStream = System.in;
        OutputStream outputStream = System.out;
        ScanReader in = new ScanReader(inputStream);
        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outputStream);
        CMaximalValue solver = new CMaximalValue();
        solver.solve(1, in, out);
        out.close();
    }

    static class CMaximalValue {
        public void solve(int testNumber, ScanReader in, PrintWriter out) {
            int n = in.scanInt();
            int arr[] = new int[n];
            arr[n - 1] = 0;
            int b[] = new int[n - 1];
            in.scanInt(b);
            arr[0] = b[0];
            arr[0 + 1] = b[0];
            for (int i = 1; i < n - 1; i++) {
                arr[i] = Math.min(arr[i], b[i]);
                arr[i + 1] = b[i];
            }


            long sum = 0;
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) sum += arr[i];
            out.println(sum);
        }

    }

    static class ScanReader {
        private byte[] buf = new byte[4 * 1024];
        private int INDEX;
        private BufferedInputStream in;
        private int TOTAL;

        public ScanReader(InputStream inputStream) {
            in = new BufferedInputStream(inputStream);
        }

        private int scan() {
            if (INDEX >= TOTAL) {
                INDEX = 0;
                try {
                    TOTAL = in.read(buf);
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
                if (TOTAL <= 0) return -1;
            }
            return buf[INDEX++];
        }

        public int scanInt() {
            int I = 0;
            int n = scan();
            while (isWhiteSpace(n)) n = scan();
            int neg = 1;
            if (n == '-') {
                neg = -1;
                n = scan();
            }
            while (!isWhiteSpace(n)) {
                if (n >= '0' && n <= '9') {
                    I *= 10;
                    I += n - '0';
                    n = scan();
                }
            }
            return neg * I;
        }

        private boolean isWhiteSpace(int n) {
            if (n == ' ' || n == '\n' || n == '\r' || n == '\t' || n == -1) return true;
            else return false;
        }

        public void scanInt(int[] A) {
            for (int i = 0; i < A.length; i++) A[i] = scanInt();
        }

    }
}