Originally posted by sonhouse
In that case the problem is almost trivial.
Seems like cheating though, in the real world you have to stop cutting in one direction to start cutting in another. I guess you could do it by approaching a smaller and smaller circular cut, small radius so you don't stop cutting🙂

i think what he means by 'one cut' is that it is a continuous cut in the carpet and not a continuous cut in time..u can stop n wait as long as u continue ur cut from where u stopped.. and as the one and only solver says (which the poser says correct) there is no tricky business..