Billiards is a game played on a large table covered with cloth, where players use long sticks called cues to hit balls into each other or into pockets. There are several types, including pool and snooker.
From French “billard,” originally meaning a stick or staff, later the game played with such sticks. The word entered English as the game became popular in Europe.
The physics of billiards—angles, spin, and speed—is the same math used in serious engineering and computer graphics. When good players “see the angles,” they’re doing quick geometry in their heads without writing a single formula.
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