getting wrong answer in SPOJ problem UCV2013J

here is my code

/*
Valences
submitted by 
Arjun Mishra
*/
#include<iostream>
#include<string.h>
#include<math.h>
using namespace std;
long long int A;
long long int compare[21];
void function()
{long long int i;
compare[0]=1;
for(i=1;i<=20;i++)
compare[i]=(long long int)pow(2,i);
     }
int main()
{long long int N,i,a,sum=0;
function();
//for(i=0;i<=20;i++)
//cout<<compare[i]<<endl;
while(1)
{sum=0;
 cin>>N;
 if(N==0)
 return 0;
 for(i=0;i<=20;i++)
 {
 if(N>=compare[i]&&N<compare[i+1])
 {a=compare[i];
 //cout<<i<<endl;
 break;}              
 }
 //cout<<a<<endl;
 for(i=1;i<=a-1;i++)
 cin>>A;
 for(i=a;i<=N;i++)
 {cin>>A;
 sum+=A;
 //cout<<sum<<endl;
 }
 cout<<sum<<endl;
 }
 }

i don’t know why it is producing WA after 50s of execution

My logic is different than yours. You are making it complicated, just observe the pattern ( the leaf nos. you need to add ) by making binary trees with nodes 1 to 15.

Node Leaf

1 : 1

2 : 2


3 : 2 + 3

4 : 3 + 4


5 : 3 + 4 + 5

6 : 4 + 5 + 6


7 : 4 + 5 + 6 + 7

8 : 5 + 6 + 7 + 8


9 : 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9

10 : 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10


Here is my code for reference : SPOJ/UCV2013J.cpp at master · Ouditchya/SPOJ · GitHub

Regards,

Ouditchya Sinha.

It is very gud example of heap.
Just traverse array from middle to last and add each element into the total.
Because index of first leaf element is (N/2) and index last non-leaf element is (N/2-1).
So,the rest half array is of leaf nodes.