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Following up on my previous post... If we assume this family of paths also contains the path with the lowest expectation value, we can at least come close to pinpointing it, though it may be messy. The edge of the forest is equally likely to be in any direction from our starting point, so the...

We can do better than that, even! chingkui's solution gives a total worst-case path length of 2 + 3\pi/2 \approx 6.712 miles. StatusX's gives 2 + \sqrt{2} + \pi \approx 6.556 miles. But if we consider these as part of a family of solutions, where: We start by going in some...