PROJECT EULER · #0532
Nanobots on Geodesics
Bob is a manufacturer of nanobots and wants to impress his customers by giving them a ball coloured by his new nanobots as a present.
His nanobots can be programmed to select and locate exactly one other bot precisely and, after activation, move towards this bot along the shortest possible path and draw a coloured line onto the surface while moving. Placed on a plane, the bots will start to move towards their selected bots in a straight line. In contrast, being placed on a ball, they will start to move along a geodesic as the shortest possible path. However, in both cases, whenever their target moves they will adjust their direction instantaneously to the new shortest possible path. All bots will move at the same speed after their simultaneous activation until each bot reaches its goal.
Now Bob places
Using three bots, Bob finds that every bot will draw a line of length

In order to show off a little with his presents, Bob decides to use just enough bots to make sure that the line each bot draws is longer than
Write-up coming later
The complete problem is available here. An approach, code, and answer will be added later.