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Re:Show HN: A 2D Physics Simulator in JavaScript by yorwba on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:14PM (#14871401)
It is surprisingly difficult to find a concrete explanation of symplecticity. It seems like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic_integrator has links to all the relevant information, but even there the conserved quantity is given as a differential form dp /\ dq, which makes me wonder whether you can even compute it for individual points, or whether you have to integrate over the whole space.

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