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The figure shows a cube with sides of length 1, on which all twelve face diagonals have been drawn - creating a network with 14 vertices (the original eight corners, plus the six face centres) and 36 edges (the original 12 edges of the cube plus four extra edges on each face). What is the length of the shortest path along the edges of the network which passes through all 14
vertices?
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