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... butterfly's wings can be instrumental in generating or preventing a tornado , ' so can all the previous and subsequent flaps of its wings , as can the flaps of the wings of millions of other butterflies , not to mention the activities ...
... butterfly's wings can be instrumental in generating or preventing a tornado , ' so can all the previous and subsequent flaps of its wings , as can the flaps of the wings of millions of other butterflies , not to mention the activities ...
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... butterfly effect , Edward Lorenz , did not stop with an image of predictability giving way to pure randomness . He saw that the butterfly effect itself was no accident : ' To produce the rich repertoire of real earthly weather , the ...
... butterfly effect , Edward Lorenz , did not stop with an image of predictability giving way to pure randomness . He saw that the butterfly effect itself was no accident : ' To produce the rich repertoire of real earthly weather , the ...
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... butterfly effects are not just disruptive of order , but necessary to the glorious range and variety of systems ( gorgeous as well as catastrophic ) , Cleopatra could be described as the ' butterfly ' in the ointment of Roman hegemony ...
... butterfly effects are not just disruptive of order , but necessary to the glorious range and variety of systems ( gorgeous as well as catastrophic ) , Cleopatra could be described as the ' butterfly ' in the ointment of Roman hegemony ...
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chaos classics and modern culture | 1 |
chaos theory Miltons Eden and Jurassic | 26 |
selfsimilarities in Shakespeare | 75 |
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Strange Attractors: Literature, Culture, and Chaos Theory Harriett Hawkins No preview available - 1995 |
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