
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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Tailors call a tape with centimeter markings on it a "centimeter." Dr. Sylvester Sharadek has (naturally) a different "centimeter" compared to ordinary mortals. It looks as shown in Fig. 3 (only part of the tape is pictured), i.e., at the beginning of the tape it has a half-centimeter bracket. Dr. Sharadek claims that his "centimeter" is better than the usual one. Why?

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