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Re: G17 (ball return time limit) penalties in endgame

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Originally Posted by Paul Rodi View Post
I believe the equation gives you 15 secs to return the first ball and 4 additional seconds for each additional ball.

Is Texpire continually recalculated as balls are added or is it calculated once for each ball?
I read it the same exact way, but their followup note leads me to believe that they (like most programmers) start counting at 0. So the first ball that goes through is n=0, two go through and n=1.

A good question for the Q&A though.
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