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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $243$
- The Squirrel's Climb
- A squirrel goes spirally up a cylindrical post, making the circuit in $4$ feet.
- How many feet does it travel to the top if the post is $16$ feet high and $3$ feet in circumference?
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $243$. -- The Squirrel's Climb
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Solid Geometry Puzzles: $324$. The Squirrel's Climb