
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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The bacteria in a petri dish double every minute. Initially, there were 10 bacteria in the dish. After one hour, there are 10,240 bacteria. How many would be there at the beginning if there had no initial offset?

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