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Feigenbaum discovered a ratio between bifurcations that were found in all known chaotic-dynamic systems, from dripping water faucets to abstract equations on population fluctuations (as elucidated in James Gleick's book "Chaos"). How should one understand its universality?

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    Dripping water faucets can't be described by mathematical equations?2012-09-07
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    @QiaochuYuan: Sorry was being sloppy, reworded. But, technically, dripping water probably can't -- at least at the place where it turns chaotic.2012-09-08

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