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Meaning of Feigenbaum Constant

08/13/2007 9:37 PM

I read several years back about the Feigenbaum constant and its ability to predict the onset of Chaos. Mitchell Feigenbaum came up with the observation back in 1975, I believe. It was stated in one article I read to be a universal scaling property for Chaos theory. I never followed the math involved, but I was wondering about the fact that the Feigenbaum constant is so closely approximated by the ratio: 10/(Pi-1). Why is this?

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Re: Meaning of Feigenbaum Constant

08/15/2007 11:31 AM

Hi Aqua,

I suspect this is just an example of the Rostenkowski Theorem which says that, in general, any constant can be expressed as a multiple of another constant.

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