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Minimum number of roots of second derivative

Let f:R→Rf:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R} be a function defined by f(x)=x2−x,x∈Rf(x)=x^2-x, x\in\mathbb{R}. Let g:R→Rg:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R} be a twice differentiable function such that g(x)=0g(x)=0 has exactly three distinct roots in the open interval (0,1)(0, 1). Let h(x)=f(x)g(x),x∈Rh(x)=f(x)g(x), x\in\mathbb{R}, and h"h" be the second order derivative of the function hh. If nn is the number of roots of h"(x)=0h"(x)=0 in (0,1)(0, 1), then the minimum possible value of nn equals __________

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