HMMT 2022 U32
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An ant starts at the point in the Cartesian plane. In the first minute, the ant faces towards and walks one unit. Each subsequent minute, the ant chooses an angle uniformly at random in the interval , and then turns an angle of clockwise (negative values of correspond to counterclockwise rotations). Then, the ant walks one unit. After minutes, the ant's distance from is . Let the expected value of be . Compute the closest integer to
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