{"id":4594,"date":"2025-10-04T09:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2025-10-04T09:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:34:43","slug":"shortest-pyramid-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/04\/shortest-pyramid-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortest Pyramid Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4590\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shortest-Pyramid-Path-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shortest-Pyramid-Path-Fig2.jpg 402w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shortest-Pyramid-Path-Fig2-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>This is an earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/mindyourdecisions.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/13\/shortest-path-around-a-pyramid\/\">puzzle<\/a> from Presh Talwalkar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA square pyramid has base <em>PQRS<\/em> and vertex <em>O<\/em>. Each edge has length equal to 20. Calculate the shortest distance along the outer surface of the pyramid from <em>P<\/em> to <em>T<\/em>, the midpoint of <em>OR<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shortest-Pyramid-Path-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Shortest-Pyramid-Path-250202.pdf\">Shortest Pyramid Path<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an earlier puzzle from Presh Talwalkar. \u201cA square pyramid has base PQRS and vertex O. Each edge has length equal to 20. Calculate the shortest distance along the outer surface of the pyramid from P to T, the midpoint of OR.\u201d Answer. See Shortest Pyramid Path for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[153,13,17],"class_list":["post-4594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-optimization","tag-plane-geometry","tag-presh-talwalkar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4595,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions\/4595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}