Re: Just Found a Website That's Priceless

John Cowan wrote:
>Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "strange attractor" ...
>
>I know this is a joke, but of course these attractors are ordinary ones,
>not strange in the usual mathematical sense.
Had it been a strange attractor in the mathematical sense, it hadn't been a
new meaning, had it?

>My favorite attractor: enter any number into a scientific calculator
>set in "degrees" mode and keep hitting "cos".  In ten cycles or
>less it becomes 0.9998477415310881129598107686798 or thereabouts,
>depending on how many significant digits you have.
Well, that syntax doesn't work on any of my calculators, but running
cos(X)->X in radian mode eventually lands on .739085332 (running it in
degrees mode, of course, eventually returns the number John cited, albight
with a lot few decimals).

                                                     Andreas

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