hdu1233

/**/
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstring>
#include <cmath>
#include <cctype>
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <map>
#include <set>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <stack>
#include <queue>

typedef long long LL;
using namespace std;

int n;
int cnt;
int f[105];
struct node
{
	int u, v, w;
	bool operator <(const node &x)const{
		return w < x.w;
	}
}a[100005];

int Find(int x){
	return x == f[x] ? x : Find(f[x]);
}

void kruskal(){
	for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) f[i] = i;
	sort(a, a + cnt);
	int tot = 0;
	int ans = 0;
	for (int i = 0; i < cnt; i++){
		int x = Find(a[i].u), y = Find(a[i].v);
		if(x != y){
			f[x] = y;
			tot++;
			ans += a[i].w;
			if(tot == n - 1) break;
		}
	}
	printf("%d\n", ans);
}

int main()
{
	//freopen("in.txt", "r", stdin);
	//freopen("out.txt", "w", stdout);

	while(scanf("%d", &n) == 1){
		int u, v, w;
		if(n == 0) break;
		cnt = 0;
		for (int i = 1; i <= n * (n - 1) / 2; i++){
			scanf("%d %d %d", &u, &v, &w);
			a[cnt].u = u, a[cnt].v = v, a[cnt].w = w;
			cnt++;
			a[cnt].u = v, a[cnt].v = u, a[cnt].w = w;
			cnt++;
		}
		kruskal();
		
	}

	return 0;
}
/**/