See Chaos Theory in your Calculator in 3 easy steps !

[Mod]

( You can use Windows Calculator set to scientific mode)


1.Set your calculator to radians.
2.Type any number
3.Press tangent function button as much as you like.

Depending on what you type initialy, you can see the succession of numbers to stable, or vary like crazy !

What do you think people ?

 

[Deepak]

I tried it! Now what!

 

[MuFu]

I think I just disproved Chaos Theory with a Ti-83.

MuFu.

 

[Ilfirin]

Precision Fact = Chaos Theory?

 

[ZenBearClaw!]

Tangent is a function that has periodic vertical asymptotes (no idea how to spell that) so obviously it will iscolate crazily if your program starts rounding near infinity whats worse is that you are reusing the flawed result so you get even wierder ones.
Though it might be a good precision test to see what precision a card is using since you should be able to predict when the errors will get too big quite quickly.

 

[Mod]

Tangent is a function that has periodic vertical asymptotes (no idea how to spell that) so obviously it will iscolate crazily if your program starts rounding near infinity whats worse is that you are reusing the flawed result so you get even wierder ones.
Though it might be a good precision test to see what precision a card is using since you should be able to predict when the errors will get too big quite quickly.

No, it will oscilate around 0.1 and 0.6 most of the times. Use windows calculator, because it has higher precision.

 

[Neeyik]

The Windows XP Powertoy calculator can be set to 512-bits precision. What's the standard win calc work to?

 

[Basic]

I think I just disproved Chaos Theory with a Ti-83.

You used wrong model. I remember that the Chaos Field is particularily strong around early Ti-30 models, giving different result even with the same input.