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I don't think that conflicts with what I said?

• saganus 12y ago
  I don't think it conflicts with it, but I believe the correct explanation has to do more with tiny changes producing big ramifications than with being deterministic or not. That's why the "butterfly effect" is used as an explanation of chaotic systems (albeit in my opinion a not a very good one). Edit: changed contradict to conflict
  • papaf 12y ago
    For me, the most interesting part of Chaos is that it is deterministic.
    • throwaway283719 12y ago
      Meh, it's mathematically deterministic. In reality there is always error (modelling error, measurement error, simulation error) which means that chaotic systems are effectively random on long time scales, even though they are technically deterministic.
      • papaf 12y ago
        I would disagree with the phrase "effectively random" because its too general. Chaotic attractors survive the presence of noise and Chaotic systems look nothing like random data when viewed in a certain way. Another way of looking at real systems, is that the system is deterministic and the errors are random.