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Michael Ian Shamos — (born April 21, 1947, and often referred to as Mike Shamos) is an American mathematician, attorney, book author, journal editor, consultant and company director. He is (with Franco P. Preparata) the author of Computational Geometry (Springer… … Wikipedia
Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail — (VVPAT) or Verified Paper Record (VPR) is intended as an independent verification system for voting machines designed to allow voters to verify that their vote was cast correctly, to detect possible election fraud or malfunction, and to provide a … Wikipedia
Cue sports — Billiards redirects here. For other uses, see Billiard (disambiguation). Cue sports Engraving from Charles Cotton s 1674 book, The Compleat Gamester Highest governing body World Confederation of Billiard Sports First played 15th … Wikipedia
Glossary of cue sports terms — The following is a glossary of traditional English language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom (or carambole) billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool (pocket… … Wikipedia
Three-ball — (or 3 ball , colloquially) is a pocket billiards folk game played with three standard pool Cuegloss|Object ball|object balls and a Cuegloss|Cue ball|cue ball. The goal is to Cuegloss|Pocket|pocket the three object balls in as few shots as… … Wikipedia
Billiard Congress of America — (BCA) is a governing body for cue sports in North America (here defined as the United States and Canada exclusively), the regional member organization of the World Pool Billiard Association (WPA).[1] It was established under this name in 1948[2]… … Wikipedia
Billiard ball — Cueball redirects here. For the video game, see Jimmy White s 2: Cueball. Cue balls from (left to right): Russian pool and kaisa 68 mm (2 11⁄16 … Wikipedia
Balkline and straight rail — Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line)Cite journal url=http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Default/Scripting/ArchiveView.asp?BaseHref=BEG/1896/11/24 Page=10 SelectedEntity=Ar01031 skin=BEagle GZ=T title=To Play 14 inch Balk Line author=… … Wikipedia
Sweep line algorithm — In computational geometry, a sweep line algorithm or plane sweep algorithm is a type of algorithm that uses a conceptual sweep line or sweep surface to solve various problems in Euclidean space. It is one of the key techniques in computational… … Wikipedia
Clybourne Park — Written by Bruce Norris Characters 5 male 3 female Date premiered February 1, 2010 Genre Comedy Drama Clybourne Park is a 2010 pla … Wikipedia
Eight-ball — Eight ball, sometimes called stripes and solids and, more rarely, bigs and littles or highs and lows, is a pocket billiards (pool) game popular in much of the world, and the subject of international amateur and professional competition. Played on … Wikipedia
