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[ZCO12004] Round Table (ZCO 2012: India)

September 22, 2016

Zonal Computing Olympiad is round 1 out of 3 (i.e. beginner) for selection into Indian IOI team.

N knights are sitting in a circle. Making a dessert for knight i costs C[i]. Find the minimum cost such that for every pair of adjacent knights, at least one gets his dessert. N ≤ 10 ** 6.

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