Ivan Shishkin, Rye (1878)

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Slicing chocolate bars

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When you slice a rectangular chocolate bar along a row or a column, you always get exactly 2 pieces.
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But once the bar is not rectangular anymore, a single slice can split it into 3 or more pieces.

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Alice claims she managed to cut a chocolate bar into 100 pieces in a single slice!
How many chocolate squares did the bar have, at least?

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