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letter H!ave you ever gone ten-pin bowling?  For those of you
who haven't, here's how it works. Ten pins stand in a triangular
array sixty feet away from you. Between you and the pins, there
is an oiled wooden lane that is 41.5 inches wide. You have a
ball a little less than nine inches in diameter that weighs up
to sixteen pounds. Your goal is to roll your ball down the lane
and knock down as many pins as you can.  Here's the bad news: on
the left and right edges of the lane, there are gutters. If your
ball falls into the gutter, you don't get to knock down any
pins. The good news is that if this happens, you probably get to
try again in a minute or so when your turn comes around again.
In one round of bowling, you'll have somewhere between twelve
and twenty rolls; one dead roll isn't a huge deal.  That's
enough for most adults. Kids, however, can get frustrated at
even one ball going in the gutter. In order to fix this, Phil
Kinzer invented the con