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True, but if it's impossible to measure the initial conditions to the necessary degree of accuracy, then it is quite legitimate to describe the system's behavio
by splat 17y ago
True, but if it's impossible to measure the initial conditions to the necessary degree of accuracy, then it is quite legitimate to describe the system's behavior as "unpredictable."
- RK 17y agoYes, but describing it as "inherently unpredictable" gives the impression that you could take one of the simple equations that are chaotic and do things like produce truly random numbers on your computer. This is not the case.