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Consider a unconventional billiard board in the shape of an equilateral triangle (depicted below). An incredibly small ball (size in picture is increased for the sake of visibility on your screen) is put in the A corner.

How many paths for the ball are there such that the ball bounces off the sides exactly 20160127 times, starting and ending in the A corner?

Note: the question is heavily inspired by a question on the Project Euler website, which I enjoyed very much solving.

Hint:

Case: 11 bounces, 2 paths; Case: 10001 bounces, 800 paths; Case: 1000001 bounces, 80840 paths.

Additional information: There is also a paper on the matter if you are intrested to read more.

Consider a unconventional billiard board in the shape of an equilateral triangle (depicted below). An incredibly small ball (size in picture is increased for the sake of visibility on your screen) is put in the A corner.

How many paths for the ball are there such that the ball bounces off the sides exactly 20160127 times, starting and ending in the A corner?

Note: the question is heavily inspired by a question on the Project Euler website, which I enjoyed very much solving.

Hint:

Case: 11 bounces, 2 paths; Case: 10001 bounces, 800 paths; Case: 1000001 bounces, 80840 paths.

Additional information: There is also a paper on the matter if you are interested in reading more.

Consider a unconventional billiard board in the shape of an equilateral triangle (depicted below). An incredibly small ball (size in picture is increased for the sake of visibility on your screen) is put in the A corner.

How many paths for the ball are there such that the ball bounces off the sides exactly 20160127 times, starting and ending in the A corner?

Note: the question is heavily inspired by a question on the Project Euler website, which I enjoyed very much solving.

Hint:

Case: 11 bounces, 2 paths; Case: 10001 bounces, 800 paths; Case: 1000001 bounces, 80840 paths.

Consider a unconventional billiard board in the shape of an equilateral triangle (depicted below). An incredibly small ball (size in picture is increased for the sake of visibility on your screen) is put in the A corner.

How many paths for the ball are there such that the ball bounces off the sides exactly 20160127 times, starting and ending in the A corner?

Note: the question is heavily inspired by a question on the Project Euler website, which I enjoyed very much solving.

Hint:

Case: 11 bounces, 2 paths; Case: 10001 bounces, 800 paths; Case: 1000001 bounces, 80840 paths.

Additional information: There is also a paper on the matter if you are intrested to read more.

Consider a unconventional billiard board in the shape of an equilateral triangle (depicted below). An incredibly small ball (size in picture is increased for the sake of visibility on your screen) is put in the A corner.

How many paths for the ball are there such that the ball bounces off the sides exactly 20160127 times, starting and ending in the A corner?

Note: the question is heavily inspired by a question on the Project Euler website, which I enjoyed very much solving.

Hint:

Case: 11 bounces, 2 paths; Case: 10001 bounces, 800 paths.

Consider a unconventional billiard board in the shape of an equilateral triangle (depicted below). An incredibly small ball (size in picture is increased for the sake of visibility on your screen) is put in the A corner.

How many paths for the ball are there such that the ball bounces off the sides exactly 20160127 times, starting and ending in the A corner?

Note: the question is heavily inspired by a question on the Project Euler website, which I enjoyed very much solving.

Hint:

Case: 11 bounces, 2 paths; Case: 10001 bounces, 800 paths; Case: 1000001 bounces, 80840 paths.