The difficulty is that the goat is tied to the fence.
It would be a lot easier to put a pole in the center of the circle.
The length of the rope would then be 0.5 x sqr(2) x fence radius.
Comment on xkcd #3125: Snake-in-the-Box Problem
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoI feel like the answer should be much simpler than that equation salad.
bstix@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Equation salad? It’s elegant. Well, according to my father who was a math professor.
Deriving that monstrosity must be something out of a grad school horror novel.