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We consider the Money–Coutts process. We show that in parallelograms this process is always preperiodic while the process is chaotic for an open set of quadrilaterals.
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Troubetzkoy, S. Circles and Polygons. Geometriae Dedicata 80, 289–296 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005265015972
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