Gold Bar Cut Optimization - Quant Trader Interview Question
Difficulty: Medium
Category: Brainteasers
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Topics: logic, optimization, brainteaser, problem-solving
Problem Description
You are tasked with paying an employee with a 7-segment gold bar. You must pay the employee one segment per day for seven days. You are allowed to cut the gold bar into segments. What is the fewest number of cuts required to pay the employee correctly each day?
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