🦋 Chaos Theory

Chaos theory studies deterministic systems whose long-term behaviour is extremely sensitive to initial conditions — the famous 'butterfly effect' — so that tiny measurement errors grow exponentially and make precise long-range prediction impossible even though the underlying equations contain no randomness at all.

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For a fuller technical treatment, see the Numerical Methods Glossary — ODE Integration reference on MySimulator.

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