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Olympiad Geometry · Superchallenge problem
Town is at and town is at . An east-west river has straight banks along and , and a north-south river has banks along and . A road from to crosses each river exactly once, on a bridge perpendicular to that river's banks; everywhere else the road may run in any direction. Find the length of the shortest possible road.