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What on earth? Not having a closed form for something is decidedly not the same as not being able to use it to predict anything. That’s like saying so-called co
by jonathanyc 8y ago
What on earth? Not having a closed form for something is decidedly not the same as not being able to use it to predict anything. That’s like saying so-called computer programmers can’t actually predict anything about their programs will do.
- masteranza 8y agoDo not bother this guy. Apparently he is either crazy or ignorant. The solar system is stable in the sense of time periods necessary to make NASA their calculations and the Lyapunov are small - all that's needed can be deduced from either Newton or Einstein theories.
- pofilat 8y agoAny (non-pathological) terminating computer program (including a non-terminating program that includes a step to forcibly stop at a certain clock time) has a closed form, it's just phenomenally complex. :)