Billiards and the Five Distance Theorem II
Abstract
We consider a billiard table rectangle. If a billiard ball is sent out from position F(1) at the angle of , then the ball will rebound against the sides of the rectangle consecutively in points . Let and be the set of different points. An open connected subset of the perimeter of the billiard rectangle with different endpoints from the set is called \textit{segment}. \textit{Length} of a segment is a distance along the perimeter between its endpoints. A segment with endpoints , F(l), , is called \textit{even} (or \textit{odd}), and has \textit{weight} (or ) if , are of the same (or different) parity. A segment is called \textit{elementary} if there are no points of the set between its endpoints. Suppose . A segment is \textit{associated} with if is an elementary segment incident with an element of or is nonempty set contained in . Let be odd weights and be an even weight of segments associated with , and let be other odd weights of segments associated with . Suppose that is the length of the segment with the weight , . In an earlier paper the author have proved that the weights of elementary segments have at most five different values . Moreover, elementary segments with equal weights have equal lengths. Let be the set of all elementary segments with weight . In this paper we prove that, if we know weights , , , and such that , then we can easily calculate .
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@article{arxiv.1207.6712,
title = {Billiards and the Five Distance Theorem II},
author = {Jan Florek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.6712},
year = {2012}
}
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3 pages