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<p>
The fine people of Corpro Corp. are a festive bunch. Every holiday season, everybody buys a gift for their manager. A cynic might say that the employees are just trying to bribe their way to a better performance review, but if you asked them yourself, they'd say they just wanted to spread cheer.
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<p>
The fine people of Corpro Corp. are a frugal bunch. When they buy gifts, they cooperate to collectively buy the least expensive gifts that they can. A cynic might say that the employees are cheap, but if you asked them yourself, they'd say it's the thought that counts.
</p>
<p>
There are <strong>N</strong> employees working at Corpro Corp., and each of them has a manager, except for the CEO who has no manager (the CEO also buys a gift every year, but she donates it to charity).
The employees each have a unique employee ID which is an integer from 1 to <strong>N</strong>. As you might expect, the CEO has the ID 1.
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<p>
If there exists a set of two or more employees
{<strong>p<sub>1</sub></strong>, ...,
<strong>p<sub>k</sub></strong>}
such that, for all <strong>i</strong> &lt; <strong>k</strong>,
<strong>p<sub>i</sub></strong> is the manager of <strong>p<sub>i+1</sub></strong>,
then we say that <strong>p<sub>1</sub></strong> is "responsible for" <strong>p<sub>k</sub></strong>.
There are never two employees who are responsible for each other.
That would be a silly hierarchy indeed.
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<p>
There are <strong>N</strong> kinds of gifts available for purchase, and the <strong>i</strong>th kind of gift costs <strong>i</strong> dollars. That is, the prices of the different kinds of gifts are {$1, $2, $3, ... $<strong>N</strong>}. There are <strong>N</strong> copies of each gift available for purchase.
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<p>
The only thing that stops all employees from purchasing gifts that cost $1 is the awkwardness of buying a gift for their manager that's the same as the one their manager is giving away. No employee would ever do such a thing!
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<p>
For example, in a company with just 2 employees, at least $3 must be spent in total. If employee #1 (the CEO) buys a $1 gift to donate to charity, then employee #2 cannot buy a $1 gift for employee #1 (their manager), but they can buy a $2 gift instead. Note that it would be equally optimal for the CEO to buy a $2 gift, while receiving a $1 gift from her subordinate.
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<p>
What's the minimum possible total expenditure across the whole company during the gift exchange?
</p>
<h3>Input</h3>
<p>
Input begins with an integer <strong>T</strong>, the number of corporate hierarchies to consider.
Each hierarchy is made up of two lines.
The first line contains the integer <strong>N</strong>.
The second line contains <strong>N</strong> space-separated integers.
The <strong>i</strong>th integer is the employee ID of the manager of employee <strong>i</strong>,
with the exception that the first integer is always 0, denoting that the CEO has no manager.
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<h3>Output</h3>
<p>
For the <strong>i</strong>th hierarchy, print a line containing "Case #<strong>i</strong>: " followed by the smallest amount of money the entire company would need to spend.
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<h3>Constraints</h3>
<p>
1 &le; <strong>T</strong> &le; 100 <br />
1 &le; <strong>N</strong> &le; 200,000 <br />
</p>
<p>
<strong>NOTE:</strong> The input file is about 10-20MB.
</p>
<h3>Explanation of Sample</h3>
<p>
In the first test case, the CEO will spend $2, and the other employees will spend $1.
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<p>
In the second test case, employees #2 and #3 will spend $2, and the other employees will spend $1.
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