Problem 44387. Birthday cake
It's Cody's 5th birthday, and you've been tasked with putting the candles on the cake. Your goal is to maximize the distance between the 5 required candles.
Given a rectangular cake with specified length and width, return the highest possible minimum distance between any two candles.
Important notes
- You may assume that a candle can be placed directly on the edge of the cake (even though that would be physically challenging!).
- Required tolerance: <0.01
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I am getting 517.6381 for test #23 (same value using algebraic formula or 1d optimization) compared to the testsuite 517.6500 value, could you please double-check?
Good catch. Test suite updated.
Too many math answers on this one. Let's see some simulations, people!
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