Chef and Number

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Chef has provided you a number N and a value K, and he wants to reduce N to 1 by using following operations ( any number of times ) - N can be incremented by 1 - N can be decremented by 1 - N can be reduce to N/K ( if N is dividible by K ) Help chef to find out the minimum number of operations to be performed to reach 1 ? ###Input: - First line will contain $T$, number of testcase

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