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From: toma@fluke.UUCP (Tom Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Spider and the Fly - (nf)
Message-ID: <374@vax1.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Sep-83 12:09:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 13 12:09:36 1983
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Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, Wash
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The answer is forty feet.  If you unfold the room these hapless 
insects reside in like this (please excuse the poor draftmanship):

	
		_______________________________
		|                             |
		|                             |
		|  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  |______
		|                                   |
		|                              S    |
		|  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  ______|
		|                             |
		|                             |
	  ______|  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  |
	  |                                   |
	  |    F                              |
	  |___________________________________|


    Should be pretty obvious to any reasonable spider.


				Tom Anderson
				John Fluke Mfg.