
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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An artist arranges 1000 dots evenly around a circle, with each dot being either red or blue. A critic counts faults: each pair of adjacent red dots counts as one fault, and each pair of blue dots exactly two apart (separated by one dot) counts as another fault. What is the smallest number of faults the critic could find?

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