Consider an infinite chessboard, where the squares have side length of 1. The squares are colored black and white alternately. The (finite) radius of the largest circle which can be drawn completely on the white squares (hence you can see the entire circle) has a radius of ab√c, where a,b and c are integers, a and c are coprime, and b is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is the value of a+b+c?
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