by Badsnookerplayer » 22 Aug 2017 Read
I think the lowest possible total break comprising a total clearance is 44. Given that this is nigh impossible, what is the lowest break anybody is aware of that comprised a total clearance?
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by SnookerFan » 23 Aug 2017 Read
How would you get a total clearance of 44?
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by TheSaviour » 23 Aug 2017 Read
It´s 13. Potting just a last black doesn´t count as a clearance, it is just a pot. A single pot. But make it a pink and a black, and it is a total clearance.
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by Badsnookerplayer » 23 Aug 2017 Read
SnookerFan wrote:How would you get a total clearance of 44?
A smash break, potting all 15 reds (that's the hard bit)
Nominate yellow.
Then all six colours
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by Alex0paul » 23 Aug 2017 Read
Lowest break to win a frame would be 14.
Player A pots all the reds in one shot but goes in off.
Player B pots yellow, green, brown and blue to leave A needing a snooker.
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by Badsnookerplayer » 23 Aug 2017 Read
Alex0paul wrote:Lowest break to win a frame would be 14.
Player A pots all the reds in one shot but goes in off.
Player B pots yellow, green, brown and blue to leave A needing a snooker.
In theory yes, but what is the lowest
total clearance that has ever occurred?
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by Dan-cat » 23 Aug 2017 Read
Badsnookerplayer wrote:SnookerFan wrote:How would you get a total clearance of 44?
A smash break, potting all 15 reds (that's the hard bit)
Nominate yellow.
Then all six colours
Ronnie could do it
LOLZ!
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by SnookerFan » 24 Aug 2017 Read
Badsnookerplayer wrote:SnookerFan wrote:How would you get a total clearance of 44?
A smash break, potting all 15 reds (that's the hard bit)
Nominate yellow.
Then all six colours
Of course. I wasn't taking into account that you could pot more than one red at once.
Won't happen.
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by Alex0paul » 24 Aug 2017 Read
I remember Fu making a big break with low value colours in the 2006 WC but not sure if it was a total clearance.
The commentators said "This is how you make a break with nothing on"
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by Dan-cat » 24 Aug 2017 Read
Alex0paul wrote:I remember Fu making a big break with low value colours in the 2006 WC but not sure if it was a total clearance.
The commentators said "This is how you make a break with nothing on"
Was he naked?
Reminds me of the infamous Marilyn Monroe quote about her 1952 naked calendar...
"It's not true I had nothing on. I had the radio on."
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by Dan-cat » 24 Aug 2017 Read
SnookerFan wrote:Badsnookerplayer wrote:SnookerFan wrote:How would you get a total clearance of 44?
A smash break, potting all 15 reds (that's the hard bit)
Nominate yellow.
Then all six colours
Of course. I wasn't taking into account that you could pot more than one red at once.
Won't happen.
Lolz this reminds me of Ricky Gervais trying to explain the infinite monkey cage theory to Karl Pilkington.
Ricky: 'if you had an infinite amount of monkeys and an infinite amount of typewriters, they would eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespear'
Karl: 'wouldn't happen.'
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by SnookerFan » 24 Aug 2017 Read
Dan-cat wrote:
Lolz this reminds me of Ricky Gervais trying to explain the infinite monkey cage theory to Karl Pilkington.
Ricky: 'if you had an infinite amount of monkeys and an infinite amount of typewriters, they would eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespear'
Karl: 'wouldn't happen.'
Mathematically, it would. If you were to have infinite keyboards getting typed on randomly, for an infinite amount of time, it WOULD happen.
Literally, it wouldn't. Throw a load of monkeys into a room, they wouldn't type the complete work of Shakespeare, now matter how infinite the amount or the time was.
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by Pink Ball » 24 Aug 2017 Read
SnookerFan wrote:Badsnookerplayer wrote:SnookerFan wrote:How would you get a total clearance of 44?
A smash break, potting all 15 reds (that's the hard bit)
Nominate yellow.
Then all six colours
Of course. I wasn't taking into account that you could pot more than one red at once.
Won't happen.
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by Dan-cat » 24 Aug 2017 Read
SnookerFan wrote:Dan-cat wrote:
Lolz this reminds me of Ricky Gervais trying to explain the infinite monkey cage theory to Karl Pilkington.
Ricky: 'if you had an infinite amount of monkeys and an infinite amount of typewriters, they would eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespear'
Karl: 'wouldn't happen.'
Mathematically, it would. If you were to have infinite keyboards getting typed on randomly, for an infinite amount of time, it WOULD happen.
Literally, it wouldn't. Throw a load of monkeys into a room, they wouldn't type the complete work of Shakespeare, now matter how infinite the amount or the time was.
Karl, is that you?
Given infinite time, random input would produce all possible output.
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by Iranu » 24 Aug 2017 Read
SnookerFan wrote:Dan-cat wrote:
Lolz this reminds me of Ricky Gervais trying to explain the infinite monkey cage theory to Karl Pilkington.
Ricky: 'if you had an infinite amount of monkeys and an infinite amount of typewriters, they would eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespear'
Karl: 'wouldn't happen.'
Mathematically, it would. If you were to have infinite keyboards getting typed on randomly, for an infinite amount of time, it WOULD happen.
Literally, it wouldn't. Throw a load of monkeys into a room, they wouldn't type the complete work of Shakespeare, now matter how infinite the amount or the time was.
"'It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times'?! You stupid monkey!"
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by SnookerFan » 24 Aug 2017 Read
Iranu wrote:"'It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times'?! You stupid monkey!"
"To Be, Or To Be Again?"
"Alas Poor Steve, I knew him well."
"Romeo, Romeo. Where for art though, Romeo?", "I'm down here, you silly cow."
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by Badsnookerplayer » 24 Aug 2017 Read
In 2003 the Arts Council for England paid £2,000 for a real-life test of the theorem involving six Sulawesi crested macaques, but the trial was abandoned after a month.
The monkeys produced five pages of text, mainly composed of the letter S, but failed to type anything close to a word of English, broke the computer and used the keyboard as a lavatory
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by SnookerFan » 24 Aug 2017 Read
Badsnookerplayer wrote:In 2003 the Arts Council for England paid £2,000 for a real-life test of the theorem involving six Sulawesi crested macaques, but the trial was abandoned after a month.
The monkeys produced five pages of text, mainly composed of the letter S, but failed to type anything close to a word of English, broke the computer and used the keyboard as a lavatory
That's not infinite monkeys for infinite time.
That's some monkeys, for a month.
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by Badsnookerplayer » 24 Aug 2017 Read
SnookerFan wrote:Badsnookerplayer wrote:In 2003 the Arts Council for England paid £2,000 for a real-life test of the theorem involving six Sulawesi crested macaques, but the trial was abandoned after a month.
The monkeys produced five pages of text, mainly composed of the letter S, but failed to type anything close to a word of English, broke the computer and used the keyboard as a lavatory
That's not infinite monkeys for infinite time.
That's some monkeys, for a month.
Infinite monkeys =infinite monkey rubbish on keyboard
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by mick745 » 25 Aug 2017 Read
Not only the complete works of Shakespeare but also everything else that has ever been written, and everything else that could possibly be written also, and they would produce all of it an infinite number of times.
The theory goes that there are only a finite number of patterns in which you can arrange letters, if a monkey types an a then it can only be followed by one of 26 letters or a space or a puctuation mark. However the permutations are very very large, I am sure some clever scientist
However just because you run a scenario an infinite number of times does not mean all possible outcomes will happen, just that they might. Like me not winning the world snooker championship.
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by SnookerFan » 25 Aug 2017 Read
I'm kind of with Karl Pilkington on this one.
Though I understand it's a mathematical thing, and not to be taken literally, I don't see why we'd spend a lot of time really discussing this theory.
We aren't going to get an infinite amount of monkeys, typing for an infinite amount of time. So it beggars little thought, to be fair.

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by SnookerFan » 25 Aug 2017 Read
Badsnookerplayer wrote:What is the lowest total clearance anybody has seen?
It was made by a monkey, on a typewriter.

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by Badsnookerplayer » 25 Aug 2017 Read
FFS - has anybody seen a clearance less than 130?
Has it been done?
This is a serious thread which will contribute to the sum of knowledge of snooker history
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by SnookerFan » 25 Aug 2017 Read
Badsnookerplayer wrote:FFS - has anybody seen a clearance less than 130?
Has it been done?
This is a serious thread which will contribute to the sum of knowledge of snooker history
Sorry.

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by eraserhead » 25 Aug 2017 Read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwVxCbmRNoM Typed in"snooker total clearance" on youtube found Ronnie has a 128 here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k82oXVvXj4Y Here is an obviously fake 44 I found. Also would potting the white after the black count as a total clearance? minus 7 points due to a foul.
There is also sites like cue tracker but I don't know if they have a way to separate between centuries and total clearances.
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by eraserhead » 25 Aug 2017 Read
Badsnookerplayer wrote:Nice work EH - the record is 128!!
That we know of so far I'd like to see if anyone can find lower.
Edit: Lol just decided to google "120 total clearance" and found this
http://www.ebsa.tv/120-total-clearance-from-jones/Would love to know what colours he potted most.
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by eraserhead » 25 Aug 2017 Read
Finding all sorts now.
In1915, George Hargest, who was manager at Luciana Billiard Hall in Blackwood, Monmouthshire, is credited in making the first century, when he made a total clearance of 112. The break was certified by the Billiards Association, which meant it was made on a standard table with official size pocket openings
http://www.billiardsandsnookerarchive.c ... r-history/
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