
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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Consider all possible broken lines that travel along the sides of the cells and connect two opposite corners of a square sheet of grid paper with dimensions $100 \times 100$ by the shortest path. What is the minimum number of such broken lines that need to be taken so that their union contains all the vertices of the cells?

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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