The Ant-Honey Problem

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The Ant-Honey Problem is a blog post on the blog Wait But Why, written by Tim Urban.
The post begins by introducing the puzzle: an ant is placed 1 cm from the bottom of a box, while a drop of honey is positioned 1 cm from the top. Both the ant and the honey are 6 cm away from the walls of the box. The box is 30 centimeters long, 12 centimeters wide, and 12 centimeters tall. The challenge is to determine the shortest distance the ant can crawl to reach the honey.
The optimal solution to the puzzle is revealed to be a path that involves the ant crawling along the walls of the box. By following this path, the ant can reach the honey in the shortest distance possible, which is 40 cm. The post does not provide a detailed step-by-step explanation of how this distance is calculated, but it presents the solution as the answer to the puzzle.
==Full post==
https://waitbutwhy.com/2023/08/the-ant-honey-problem.html
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