Butterfly effect
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title:
Butterfly effect
text:
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. The term is closely associated with the work of the mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz. He noted that the butterfly effect is derived from the metaphorical example of the details of a tornado being influenced by minor perturbations such as a distant butterfly flapping it
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encyclopedia
description:
Idea that small causes can have large effects
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
date created:
2001-08-08T21:55:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T03:14:11Z
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