is this
"However, there are up to three "shortest" path candidates for any given cuboid and the shortest route doesn't always have integer length."
important for anything?
if yes, what is a candidate?
Problem 086
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Re: Problem 086
I think it's mainly there as a hint for people to sanity-check their approach. A candidate is a local minimum, up to symmetry of the cuboid. (You could argue that there are six candidates, but they come in symmetric pairs).