
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]

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# Your action step 3

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Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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In a psychiatric hospital, there is a chief doctor and many madmen. During the week, each madman bit someone once a day (possibly themselves). At the end of the week, it was found that each patient has two bites, and the chief doctor has one hundred bites. How many madmen are there in the hospital?

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