
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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Let A and B be fixed points in the plane with distance AB = 1. An ant walks on a straight
line from point A to some point C in the plane and notices that the distance from itself to B
always decreases at any time during this walk. Compute the area of the region in the plane
containing all points where point C could possibly be located.

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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