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<p>The one-cushion escape from snooker in a circular table can be viewed as a ge-ometric problem involving the reflection of a light ray in a circular mirror. There are at most four escapes in any given configuration. We will obtain specific configurations in which there are exactly 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 escapes. The details consist in determining the number of real solutions in the interval (−1; 1) of certain polynomial equations, of degrees two, three or four.</p>
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The one-cushion escape from snooker in a circular table can be viewed as a ge-ometric problem involving the reflection of a light ray in a circular mirror. There are at most four escapes in any given configuration. We will obtain specific configurations in which there are exactly 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 escapes. The details consist in determining the number of real solutions in the interval (−1; 1) of certain polynomial equations, of degrees two, three or four.

The One-Cushion Escape from Snooker in a Circular Table

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The one-cushion escape from snooker in a circular table can be viewed as a ge-ometric problem involving the reflection of a light ray in a circular mirror....

The One-Cushion Escape from Snooker in a Circular Table

Published Online: Mar 08, 2024

Page range: 99 - 109

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rmm-2024-0006

© 2024 Tieling Chen et al., published by Sciendo

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