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butterfly effect

The "butterfly effect" is a common way to describe the sensitivity to initial conditions in a chaotic system. It is a reference to the frequently used metaphor of a butterfly flapping its wings somewhere in the world and then much later a typhoon developing at another location as a distant, but direct, result of this.


Topics
Chaos, Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics
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