6718.Reading Books

Time Limit: 1s Memory Limit: 512MB

There are $n$ books, and Kotivalo and Justiina are going to read them all. For each book, you know the time it takes to read it.

They both read each book from beginning to end, and they cannot read a book at the same time. What is the minimum total time required?

Input Format(From the terminal/stdin)

The first input line has an integer $n$ : the number of books.

The second line has $n$ integers $t_1,t_2,\dots,t_n$ : the time required to read each book.

  • $1 \le n \le 2 \cdot 10^5$
  • $1 \le t_i \le 10^9$

Output Format(To the terminal/stdout)

Print one integer: the minimum total time.

Sample Input

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3
2 8 3
 \n
 · · \n

Sample Output

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16
  \n
Source: CSES, Sorting and Searching, 1631

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