The butterfly effects would add up and and any zygote formed would not be the hitler-as-we-know anymore, since it would be a different combination of sperm and eggs.

Who needs guns when you got a time machine? Don’t like your highschool bully, just bump into their parents back in time. Or you know, “bump” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) into their parents.

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    I completely agree with what this comment says. It’s still irrelevant though. Where did I say it has to be unbounded? You are countering an argument I did not make. Whether the result is divergent or not is irrelevant. The point is that “not having a closed form solution” is not the meaning of chaos, which was your original wrong statement.

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      No closed form solution is one property. It’s not wrong, only incomplete. But if a system of equations had a closed form solution, it wouldn’t be called chaotic. For example any exponential equation like x^y is extremely sensitive to initial conditions yet it isn’t chaotic.

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          'Robert L. Devaney, says that to classify a dynamical system as chaotic, it must have these properties:[22]

          it must be sensitive to initial conditions, it must be topologically transitive, it must have dense periodic orbits. " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

          f(x)=x^y doesn’t satisfy those 3 conditions. Nor does the paper you linked say that x^y is a chaotic equation.

          That function in the paper cannot be solved for an input because of its sensitivity to initial input. He used a computer to simulate the time steps. He couldn’t immediately calculate any point on the the plot like y^x.

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            and again, in the definition you just pasted in there does not say anything about closed form solutions. You keep contradicting yourself in trying to die on that hill