A long time ago, I posted a problem about an ant in a circle with a diameter of 3 meters. The ant would go 1 meter in a random direction, rest, and go 1 meter in another random direction and repeat this process until it got out of the circle. What is the expected number of 1-meter steps the ant takes before escaping. It was never fully solved and I just recently got back to it and thought of this question: assume f(x) is the expected distance from the center after x steps. Is the answer to the original question merely when does f(x) become greater than 3?
