Zeus’s lightning is made of a copper rod of length 60 by bending it 4 times in alternating directions so that the angle between two adjacent parts is always 60o. What is the minimum value of the square of the distance between the two endpoints of the lightning?
All five segments of the lightning lie in the same plane.
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