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You must pay a worker exactly 1 piece of gold per day, every day for 7 days. What is the fewest number of cuts..........

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You must pay a worker exactly 1 piece of gold per day, every day for 7 days. What is the fewest number of cuts of the gold so you can pay the worker correctly?
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