
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 ant crawls along the edges of a cube with side length 1 unit. Starting from one of the vertices, in each minute the ant travels from one vertex to an adjacent vertex. After crawling for 7 minutes, the ant is at a distance of \(\sqrt{3}\) units from the starting point. Find the number of possible routes the ant has taken.

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