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A  4 mile by 4 mile grid is shown in figure below: Let
A and B be two points at a distance 
 miles, then if x be the number of horizontal grids and y be the
number of vertical grids, then the total number of grids between A
and B is

So, the distance between the two grids A and B is:



Differentiating (i) with respect to x, we get

Therefore,


Therefore, the maximum number of signs that can be place (Excluding A and B) = 3