Chaos Theory

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Today we explored one of the most famous recursive sequences called The Logistic Map.

logistic map equation

Try this activity leading on to exploring the sequence on Geogebra. There are Geogebra instructions here if you get stuck.

We were inspired for this activity by this amazing video from Ben Sparks on Numberphile. It explains how this activity links to one of the Feigenbaum constants, pseudo ramdom numbers and Chaos Theory. Definitely worth watching!

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