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No, unlike the 2 body problem the 3 body one is chaotic, which also makes a big difference for numerics. Not having a closed form analytic solution is not at a
by diffeomorphism 5y ago
No, unlike the 2 body problem the 3 body one is chaotic, which also makes a big difference for numerics.
Not having a closed form analytic solution is not at all unusual for differential equations and decidely not "the difficulty".