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What’s the French for “Ba Ba Boom”?

Discover five different walking strategies to navigate a minefield, with distances ranging from 0.5 miles to 2.82 miles. References provided for further reading.

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What’s the French for “Ba Ba Boom”?

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  1. What’s the French for“Ba Ba Boom”? Last known location: 77, Minefield Strip, Somewhere Dark,Between the Hellarwiand the Nagumba

  2. Walking strategy #1 5 Ba Ba Boom! 1 2 Spiralling out Takes½ n (n+1) L Where (n-2)*L = 1760yd Distance is between 4 - 900 miles depending on L 4 3

  3. Walking strategy #2 Ba Ba Boom! Circular Of diameter 1 mile Takes  miles

  4. Walking strategy #3 Ba Ba Boom! 2 1 Orthogonally With segments of length 2 Takes 22  2.82 miles 2

  5. Walking strategy #4 Ba Ba Boom! 2/3 1/3 1 Equilaterally With segments of length 2/3 Takes 4/3  2.31 miles 1/3

  6. Reference Solution • From the book Problem-Solving Strategies by Arthur Engel (Springer, 1998) • “The last is only slightly above the ideal  2.278 which is very difficult to find. It consists of a curve ABCDC`D`E where BC and D`C` are circular arcs, AB is a tangent of BC, ED` a tangent to D`C` and DC and DC` are tangents to both arcs. This is the shortest curve which does not completely lie inside a 1 mile wide strip.”

  7. Walking strategy #5 E Ba Ba Boom! D Ingeniously Via tangent AB, chord BC, tangent CD, and mirrored by DC`, C`D`, D`E Takes  2.278 miles C B A

  8. Optimum strategy Wait for dawn! Takes 0.5 miles

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