Cod sursă (job #446051)

#pragma GCC optimize("O3")
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
#define MOD 1000000007

using namespace std;
typedef long long ll;
typedef pair< int , int > PII;

int n, m, a[100100];
    ll ans;

int main(){
    ifstream cin("lanterna.in");
    ofstream cout("lanterna.out");
    ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);
    cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0);
    cin >> n;

    for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) cin >> a[i];
        sort(a + 1, a + n + 1);

    for (int i = n; i >= 4; i -= 2){
        ll x = a[1] + a[2] + a[2] + a[i];
        ll y = a[1] + a[1] + a[i - 1] + a[i];

        ans += min(x, y);
    }

    ans += (a[1] + a[2] + a[3]) - (a[1] + a[3]) * !(n & 1);
    cout << ans;

    return 0;

}