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Pouring water

Given two vessels, one of which can accommodate a liters of water and the other which can accommodate b liters of water, determine the number of steps required to obtain exactly c liters of water in one of the vessels. At the beginning both vessels are empty. The following operations are counted as 'steps': - emptying a vessel, - filling a vessel, - pouring water from one vessel to the other,

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