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Re: Chaos Theory Question
Posted:
Jan 20, 2013 11:19 AM
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Ludovicus wrote:
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> El sábado, 19 de enero de 2013 08:19:39 UTC-4:30, Bob escribió:
> > Hello,
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> > Have started reading about Chaos theory.
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> > Sure is a very interesting concept.
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> > I would like to ask this question, please, for anyone who understands
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> > Chaos theory:
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> > Is it a requirement for a system to become (at some point), or exhibit,
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> > chaotic behavior for there to be "feedback" ?
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> > If so, positive, negative, either ?
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> > Thanks,
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> > Bob
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> Yes.
> A sort of feedback.
> Example. The primes are chaotic because they are built by an algorithm determinist but its development is imprevisible.
> Its construction by the Eratosthenes Sieve is based in a sort of feedback
> because the produced primes affects the next primes to be produced.
> Ludovicus
I have a few questions about this question:
(1) What is chaos in the mathematical sense?
(2) What is a system (in the OP's sense)?
(3) Supposing that Q2 has a satisfactory answer, what does it mean for
(such a) system to have feedback?
I know nothing about the matter, but it seems to me that one can have
chaos (in the mathematical sense) in contexts where 'feedback' has no
meaning.
Also, (4) _are_ the primes chaotic in the OP's sense?
[Yes, I could answer Q1 by looking it up, so take the Q to be... um...
"Socratic", if that doesn't sound too pretentious.]
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by
this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting
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