The three-disc system with the gaps labelled 1 to 3 and colour-coded, with the red cross showing the origin of $(x,y)$ coordinates. The incident ray has initial position $x_0$ and angle $\the
ta_0$ (positive angles are measured in the clockwise sense).
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Matthew is a postdoctoral researcher at University College London. He hasn’t had time to play Klax since the noughties, but he’s pretty sure that Coke is it!
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