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Re:Scientists find an effective solution for the three-body ... by sasaf5 on Saturday August 14, 2021 @05:00AM (#28179203)
Better stated, the 2-body problem can be solved with a finite number of standard operations, i.e. a closed-form expression. This solution does not exist for the 3-body problem.
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Re:Scientists find an effective solution for the three-body ... by evanb on Saturday August 14, 2021 @08:01AM (#28179974)
This is not a requirement for a system to lack chaos, nor is it a metric by which we can judge if a system DOES have chaos.
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