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  1. Available online at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_problem.

  2. The author uses the term tethered-bull problem and does not refer to [23], but to a post in the Internet newsgroup sci.math.

  3. The interested reader can find the detailed calculations at http://www.bigbandi.de/dokus/ziege/index.html.

  4. Recall that the zero set of a nonzero analytic function that is defined on an open connected set is discrete.

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Ullisch, I. A Closed-Form Solution to the Geometric Goat Problem. Math Intelligencer 42, 12–16 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-020-09966-0

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