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Old 06-02-2004, 05:22 PM   #47
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Originally posted by Carbonated_Brains


Potential Energy, but let's not split hairs.

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Quote:
Originally posted by Carbonated_Brains


The computer thing is interesting though, the computer really wont repeat the same experiment and get the exact same answer if it's a truly chaotic model, because the tiny rounding errors made by computer processors are enough to propogate into the results over time.

Hmmmm, but if you feed the same computer the same variables on two seperate occasions, it is going to round them in exactly the same way each time it runs the simulation.


edit: added the word 'same' before the word 'computer'

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