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If I cut myself shaving in two places with one motion of my razor, how many cuts have I made?


If you ask me to make these cuts with a chop saw (or mitre saw if you prefer) I am making 1, 2 and 2 cuts. Where one cut is defined as pulling the trigger on the saw arm and pressing the handle down.


The answer to this question is open for debate. You see you didn't specify whether you cut all the way through resulting in two halves of a person with one cut on one of them. And which one!


You would call that one cut?


The joke is that some people in this thread are contesting the correct answer to the question in the OP...




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