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Reply to "Turnarounds"

I edited my previous post to switch x and y. y is the half width of the road and x is the distance out to the turn-around.

But anyway, I don't think the equation you posted for d is correct. Consider the case of no turn-around. Then the distance traveled is 2y, the width of the road. In this case a would be 0. Plugging a=0 into the equation gives a division by 0. But even setting a to a very small value doesn't result in a distance traveled that is approaching 2y. Actually it results in a square root of a negative number.

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