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If they fall, get tagged, or get bumped from a square by another jumper, they join the monster. The campus now has more than 2 million square feet of office space. A chaotic system will also move predictably towards its attractor in phase space - but instead of points or simple loops, we see "strange attractors" appear - complex and beautiful shapes (known as fractals) that twist and turn, intricately detailed at all possible scales. Give employees enough reasons to stick around and you'll likely see productivity go up. A nice way to see this "butterfly effect" for yourself is with a game of pool or billiards. Last person in the game wins. To determine who goes first, one person from each team tosses a baton from their baseline towards the king. Welcome to one of the most marvellous fields of modern mathematics. Modern fighter jets achieve great manoeuvrability by virtue of being aerodynamically unstable - the slightest nudge is enough to drastically alter their flightpath. Commercial aircraft are aerodynamically stable, so that a small turbulent nudge (possibly butterfly-related) won’t push the plane out of a level flightpath. No matter how consistent you are with the first shot (the break), the smallest of differences in the speed and angle with which you strike the white ball will cause the pack of billiards to scatter in wildly different directions every time.

What at first glance appears to be random behaviour is completely deterministic - it only seems random because imperceptible changes are making all the difference. It was the first chaotic system to be discovered, long before there was a Chaos Theory. Explainer: what is Chaos Theory? Chaos Theory is a delicious contradiction - a science of predicting the behaviour of "inherently unpredictable" systems. In 1887, the French mathematician Henri Poincaré showed that while Newton’s theory of gravity could perfectly predict how two planetary bodies would orbit under their mutual attraction, adding a third body to the mix rendered the equations unsolvable. The ellipse is then the locus of all points such that the sum of the distances from these two foci is always a constant. Accurate minute-by-minute forecasts added up into days, and then weeks. Two weeks is believed to be the limit we could ever achieve however much better computers and software get.

Although the computer’s new predictions started out the same as before, the two sets of predictions soon began diverging drastically. The two predictions were anything but. There are three ways of scoring: (1) the losing hazard, or loser, is a stroke in which the striker’s cue ball is pocketed after contact with another ball; (2) the winning hazard, or pot, is a stroke in which a ball other than the striker’s cue ball is pocketed after contact with another ball; (3) the cannon, or carom, is a scoring sequence in which the striker’s cue ball contacts the two other balls successively or simultaneously. Each of these sports focuses on the idea of hitting small balls with the end of a narrow stick called a cue with the object being to accrue more points than the opponent. An average pool cue measures 58 inches, so players should ensure the playing area extends at least 58 inches around each side of the table.

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