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Coloured boxes

There are n coloured boxes on the table in a row, each of them can be red, green or blue. Count the minimum number of boxes to take from the table so that any two neighbouring boxes had different colors. Boxes in a row are considered neighbouring if there are no other boxes between them. ###Input The first line of input contains a single integer T : the number of test cases(1<=T<=15). The fir

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