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- Intelligent Chaos i a simple application that allows You to experiment
- with an elementary but highly illustrative case of chaotic behaviour.
- The program calculates the formula a*x*(1-x) over and over again, by
- inserting the result of each calculation as a new value of x. To start with
- You choose for x any number between 0 and 1. The parameter a can be any
- number, but the funny things happen in the region 3≤a≤4.
- The results of the calculations form a series of numbers that behave very
- differently, dependent on which value You choose for a. For some values the
- sequence will be completely regular, for others the numbers jump around
- forever, in a seemingly random fashion. This is chaos, in the sense the
- matematicians use the term.
- With this program You can study the emergence of chaos from the simple
- formula in great detail. To help You on some significant values of a are
- given i the Examples menu.
- You should note that in the regular regions You always end up whith the
- same sequences, whatever value for x You start with, while in the chaotic
- regions the sequences are highly sensitive to the initial value of x. This
- sensitivity is sometimes used as the defining property of chaos.
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