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Quantum CyberTeaser: March/April 1997
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B200
Traveling ants. Two ants stand at opposite corners of a 1-meter square. A
barrier has been placed between them in the form of half a 1-meter square attached along
the diagonal of the first square, as shown in the picture. How long is the shortest path
from one ant to the other?*
*Walking!
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The winners:
- Matthew Spencer (State College, Pennsylvania)
- A. S. Sudheesh (Bangalore, India)
- Robin Damion (Nottingham, England)
- Bob Lind (Potosi, Wisconsin)
- Simona Nikolova (Regina, Saskatchewan)
- Oleg Shpyrko (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Jonathan Devor (Jerusalem, Israel)
- Peter DiFiore (Jacksonville, North Carolina)
- Charles Kehoe (Wichita, Kansas)
- Jim Paris (Doylestown, Pennsylvania)
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