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meglamaniac · 17 Feb 2006, 20:10

Chaos theory hurts my head. I read a book about it once and went "muuuuuuuuuuhhhhh!" for days afterwards. Lots of stuff about ratios and "e" and how it crops up in nature a lot - i remember there being something about the factor a river bends being directly equal to it, or as near as makes no difference.
Fractals and water turbulence and, yes, some stuff about weather predictions figured too - in fact what I was saying about the problem with the weather grid system came from that book, now I think about it; there was a section on a weather simulation system giving different results for each run and things.

I might try reading it again sometime and see if I grasp it any better.

[edit]
I'm almost certain it's this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...464901-4231613

It's at my parents house so I can't tell for sure.

17 Feb 2006, 20:10	#21
meglamaniac Born Sinful Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Loughborough, UK Posts: 4,059	Re: Has this been tried for weather forecasting? Chaos theory hurts my head. I read a book about it once and went "muuuuuuuuuuhhhhh!" for days afterwards. Lots of stuff about ratios and "e" and how it crops up in nature a lot - i remember there being something about the factor a river bends being directly equal to it, or as near as makes no difference. Fractals and water turbulence and, yes, some stuff about weather predictions figured too - in fact what I was saying about the problem with the weather grid system came from that book, now I think about it; there was a section on a weather simulation system giving different results for each run and things. I might try reading it again sometime and see if I grasp it any better. [edit] I'm almost certain it's this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...464901-4231613 It's at my parents house so I can't tell for sure. __________________ Worth dying for. Worth killing for. Worth going to hell for. Amen.