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Minimum number of operations required to reduce N to 1 | Function that returns the minimum number of operations to be performed to reduce the number to 1.
To stores the total number of operations to be performed.
if n is divisible by 3 then reduce it to n / 3.
if n modulo 3 is 1 decrement it by 1.
if n modulo 3 is 2 then increment it by 1.
update the counter.
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Solution in Python:

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Write me a code to minimum number of operations required to reduce N to 1 and the other steps required?
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#Here is code to minimum number of operations required to reduce N to 1 and the other steps required.
 def count_minimum_operations ( n ) :
	count = 0
	while ( n > 1 ) :
		if ( n % 3 == 0 ) :
			n //= 3
		elif ( n % 3 == 1 ) :
			n -= 1
		else :
			if ( n == 2 ) :
				n -= 1
			else :
				n += 1
		count += 1
	return count
if __name__ == " _ _ main _ _ " :
	n = 4
	ans = count_minimum_operations ( n )
	print ( ans )