What is the butterfly effect?
In: Mathematics
Imagine that you are walking down a single-track path and all of a sudden there is a fork in the road. You pick one of the 2 possible paths.
Now, you keep on walking and there is another fork in the road. Likewise, the other paths that you did not take also have forks in the road.
Now, imagine that every single decision that you make is just a set of forks in the road that you are walking on. The path that you are currently on depends entirely on every single path that you have taken beforehand.
A small change (taking a different path at any one fork) will have **huge** implications on the future path that you take.
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