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I found this a slightly different way, not as elegant as this logic, but still might be of interest to you.
I approached creating an equation by figuring out how many cuts I would need in each direction:
If I start in n orientation, I would cut (n-1) times. then for m orientation, I would cut (m-1) times for each of the n number of strips, so (m-1)*n.
Thus, the number of cuts needed would be
cuts= (n -1) +(m-1)*n.
cuts= n - 1 + m*n -n
cuts=m*n-1
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I found this a slightly different way, not as elegant as this logic, but still might be of interest to you.
I approached creating an equation by figuring out how many cuts I would need in each direction:
If I start in n orientation, I would cut (n-1) times. then for m orientation, I would cut (m-1) times for each of the n number of strips, so (m-1)*n.
Thus, the number of cuts needed would be
cuts= (n -1) +(m-1)*n.
cuts= n - 1 + m*n -n
cuts=m*n-1