import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.InputMismatchException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

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

    static class NSlimes {
        private static final long INFLL = (long) 5e18 + 7;

        public void solve(int testNumber, InputReader in, PrintWriter out) {
            int n = in.nextInt();
            long[] a = in.nextLongArray(n, 1);
            long[][] f = new long[n + 1][n + 1];
            for (int i = 0; i <= n; i++) {
                Arrays.fill(f[i], INFLL);
            }
            long[] sum = new long[n + 1];
            for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
                sum[i] = sum[i - 1] + a[i];
                f[i][1] = 0;
            }
            for (int j = 2; j <= n; j++) {
                for (int i = 1; i + j - 1 <= n; i++) {
                    for (int k = 1; k < j; k++) {
                        f[i][j] = MaxMin.Min(f[i][j], f[i][k] + f[i + k][j - k] + sum[j + i - 1] - sum[i - 1]);
                    }
                }
            }
            // out.println(f[2][1] + " " + f[4][3] + " " + f[4][1]);
            out.println(f[1][n]);
        }

    }

    static class MaxMin {
        public static <T extends Comparable<T>> T Min(T x, T y) {
            T min = x;
            if (y.compareTo(min) < 0) min = y;
            return min;
        }

    }

    static class InputReader extends InputStream {
        private InputStream stream;
        private byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
        private int curChar;
        private int numChars;

        public InputReader(InputStream stream) {
            this.stream = stream;
        }

        public int read() {
            if (numChars == -1) {
                throw new InputMismatchException();
            }
            if (curChar >= numChars) {
                curChar = 0;
                try {
                    numChars = stream.read(buf);
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new InputMismatchException();
                }
                if (numChars <= 0) {
                    return -1;
                }
            }
            return buf[curChar++];
        }

        public int nextInt() {
            int c = read();
            while (isSpaceChar(c))
                c = read();
            int sgn = 1;
            if (c == '-') {
                sgn = -1;
                c = read();
            }
            int res = 0;
            do {
                if (c < '0' || c > '9') {
                    throw new InputMismatchException();
                }
                res *= 10;
                res += c - '0';
                c = read();
            } while (!isSpaceChar(c));
            return res * sgn;
        }

        public long nextLong() {
            int c = read();
            while (isSpaceChar(c))
                c = read();
            int sgn = 1;
            if (c == '-') {
                sgn = -1;
                c = read();
            }
            long res = 0;
            do {
                if (c < '0' || c > '9') {
                    throw new InputMismatchException();
                }
                res *= 10;
                res += c - '0';
                c = read();
            } while (!isSpaceChar(c));
            return res * sgn;
        }

        public long[] nextLongArray(int length, int stIndex) {
            long[] arr = new long[length + stIndex];
            for (int i = stIndex; i < stIndex + length; i++)
                arr[i] = nextLong();
            return arr;
        }

        private static boolean isSpaceChar(int c) {
            return c == ' ' || c == '\n' || c == '\r' || c == '\t' || c == -1;
        }

    }
}



Measured memory_bytes: 151760