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2008 AIME II Problem 10
The diagram below shows a 4\times4 rectangular array of points, each of which is 1 unit away from its nearest neighbors.
Define a *growing path* to be a sequence of distinct points of the array with the property that the distance between consecutive points of the sequence is strictly increasing. Let m be the maximum possible number of points in a growing path, and let r be the number of growing paths consisting of exactly m points. Find mr.
Leading zeroes must be inputted, so if your answer is 34, then input 034
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