[Rd] When 1+2 != 3 (PR#9895)

[(Ted Harding)]

On 03-Sep-07 19:25:58, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Not sure if this counts but using the Ryacas package

Gabor, I'm afraid it doesn't count! (Though I didn't
exclude it explicitly). I'm not interested in the behaviour
of the sequence with denominator = 7 particularly.
The system is in fact an example of simulating chaotic
systems on a computer.

For instance, one of the classic illustrations is

  next x = 2*x*(1-x)

for any real x. The question is, how does a finite-length
binary representation behave?

Petr Savicky [privately] sent me a similar example:
Starting with r/K:

nextr <- function(r){ifelse(r<=K/2, 2*r, 2*(K-r))}

  "For K = 7 and r = 3, this yields r = 3,  6,  2,  4,  6, ...
   Dividing this by K=7, one gets the correct period with
   approximately correct numbers."

Best wishes,
Ted.

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