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How chaos forgets and remembers

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“It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future,” goes the proverb. A study of the dynamics of chaotic systems in the context of information theory adds a twist to this saying.

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Figure 1: Chaos measurements in time.

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  1. P.-M. Binder and R. M. Pipes are in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii 96720-4091, USA.,

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Binder, PM., Pipes, R. How chaos forgets and remembers. Nature 510, 343–344 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/510343a

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