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.util.*;
import java.io.*;

public class Main {
	private static void solve(){
		//Implement solution here.
		int n = ni();
		int[] b = na(n-1);
		int result = 0;
		result += b[0];
		result += b[n - 2];
		for(int i = 1; i < n - 1; i++) {
			result += Math.min(b[i - 1], b[i]);
		}
		System.out.println(result);
	}

	//Switch input source (stdin/file)
	private static BufferedReader br  = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
	public static void main(String[] args){
		String debugDataPath = System.getenv("DD_PATH");        
		if(debugDataPath != null){
			try{
				br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(new File(debugDataPath))));
			}catch(Exception e){
				throw new RuntimeException(e);
			}
		}
		solve();
	}

	//Input read utility
	private static StringTokenizer tokenizer = null;
	public static String next() {
		while (tokenizer == null || !tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
			try {
				tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(br.readLine());
			} catch (Exception e) {
				throw new RuntimeException(e);
			}
		}
		return tokenizer.nextToken();
	}
	//Get next single int
	private static int ni() {
		return Integer.parseInt(next());
	}
	//Get next single long
	private static long nl() {
		return Long.parseLong(next());
	}
	//Get next single double
	private static double nd() {
		return Double.parseDouble(next());
	}
	//Get next int array from one line
	private static int[] na(int n) {
		int[] a = new int[n];
		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
			a[i] = ni();
		return a;
	}
	//Get next char array from one line
	private static char[] ns() {
		return next().toCharArray();
	}
	//Get next long array from one line
	private static long[] nal(int n) {
		long[] a = new long[n];
		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
			a[i] = nl();
		return a;
	}
}