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2017-11-08 17:39:50 +01:00
A spider, **S**, sits in one corner of a cuboid room, measuring `6 by 5 by 3`,
and a fly, **F**, sits in the opposite corner.
By travelling on the surfaces of the room the shortest "straight line"
distance from **S** to **F** is 10 and the path is shown on the diagram.
![img](/data/blog/Befunge/p086.gif)
However, there are up to three "shortest" path candidates for any given cuboid and
the shortest route doesn't always have integer length.
It can be shown that there are exactly `2060` distinct cuboids, ignoring rotations,
with integer dimensions, up to a maximum size of `M by M by M`,
for which the shortest route has integer length when `M = 100`.
This is the least value of M for which the number of solutions first exceeds two thousand;
the number of solutions when `M = 99` is `1975`.
Find the least value of M such that the number of solutions first exceeds one million.