Re: Chaos question from Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?

!@?*$% (smryan@netcom.com)
Wed, 14 Aug 1996 03:08:12 GMT

> Simple honest question --- while chaos theory calls into doubts our
> scientific ability to make *exact* predictions of certain events, doesn't
> it also provide the mechanism for accurate predictions of *patterns* for
> those same events? (The simple example: we can't expect an accurate

I've always been fond of sets whose shortest decision procedure is the
total enumeration of their elements.

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