On 25/09/2019 1:16 am, Jevan Pipitone wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect > > "In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial > conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear > system can result in large differences in a later state.[1]"
Which is a bit of a simplification. When you use numerical methods to solve dynamic non-linear system equations, every iteration has initial conditions. This means that reducing the iteration time actually increases the potential for error. Scientists and engineers hate non-linearity. Unfortunately the world is essentially non-linear. > Jevan. > > > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 07:10:16 +0000 > Stephen Loosley <stephenloos...@outlook.com> wrote: > >> The study builds on the work of Edward Lorenz of MIT whose weather >> simulations using a simple computer model in the 1960s showed that tiny >> rounding errors in the numbers fed into his computer led to quite different >> forecasts, which is now known as the 'butterfly effect'. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
