import sys input = sys.stdin.readline N = int(input()) As = list(map(int, input().split())) total, value = 0, 0 target = 1 for a in As[:-1]: if a == 1: if target == 1: value += 1 target = 0 else: value = 1 else: if target == 0: pass else: value = 0 target = 1 total += value print(total)