How many collisions happen (over the entire time, i.e. in the future and in the past together) in a system of n identical billiard balls moving with different speeds in an infinite 1-dimensional billiard?

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How many collisions happen (over the entire time, i.e. in the future and in the past together) in a system of n identical billiard balls moving with different speeds in an infinite 1-dimensional billiard? 

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