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Re: The Chester Challenge 2006

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Originally Posted by mikeday51
i think the hardest part of this challenge will be that the balls would have to be timed so that they do not hit each other in mid air which would cause them to bounce off each other and not go in.
if you do that math on this part of it, lets say you fire at 12M/s and you fire all 10 in 5 seconds.

that means each ball is flying at 1/2 S intervals, which will put them 6 meters apart

thats a lot of space between the balls in flight: 10" balls with 226" of empty space between them

the odds of two balls hitting in flight is 10/226 = about 5 out of 100.

The odds are 20:1 in your favor (no collisions in midair)
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