Hi! Miles,

On 04 Dec 06 05:59, you wrote to me:

 MM> Did this message below get to you earlier ?

Yes, thanks.  My bad.  Sometimes the urge to reply escapes me.

You're dead on the mark, BTW...

 PQ>> And, this is the same mathematical theorem expounded by that
 PQ>> brilliant fellow in the first Jurassic Park movie?  ;-)
 MM> Dunno - can't remember much about that movie apart from the wooden
 MM> zoologist and the hi-speed raptors.   JC Ziman was an enthusiast
 MM> for describing catastrophes with topological maths - especially if
 MM> it also involved dynamics, chaos theory, game theory and the like.

That's exactly the sort of thing portrayed in the movie.  The way I
remember it, the 'brains' of the group in the movie explains to a female on
the inability to predict the path taken by a drop or two of water down the
outside of a human hand, given differences in: temperature; placement of
the drops; whether the hair folicles are upright; etc, etc.  The confluence
of these minor variables, making up such a miniscule event, can have an
enormous impact to the extent that they ensure an unpredictable outcome.

Cheers,
Paul.

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