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Andrei's Family

An arithmetic sequence is a sequence in which the pairwise difference is constant. For example 1,4,7,101, 4, 7, 10 is an arithmetic sequence in which every number increases by 33.

Andrei has three kids: Jerry, Vincent, and his eldest son, Chungus. Unfortunately, Andrei has forgotten Chungus' age. Luckily, he remembers that the ages of his sons form an arithmetic sequence. Given the age of Jerry and Vincent, find Chungus' age.

Input Specification​

  • The first line contains VV, the age of Vincent (the youngest child.)
  • The second line contains JJ, the age of Jerry (the middle child.)

Output Specification​

Output one integer: Chungus' age (the eldest child.)

Examples

Example 1​

Input​

12
15

Output​

18

Example 2​

Input​

69
72

Output​

75

Example 3​

Input​

1
10

Output​

19

Example 4​

Input​

5
5

Output​

5

Model Solution

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Let Chungus' age be CC. Then we have the following sequence of ages:

V,J,CV, J, C

From the problem statement, this sequence is guaranteed to be an arithmetic series. By the definition of an arithmetic series, the pairwise difference is constant. Furthermore, since we have two adjacent elements, we can compute the pairwise difference, which is J−VJ - V.

It follows that the desired value CC is equal to J+J−VJ + J - V.

v = int(input())
j = int(input())
print(j + j - v)