On 7/25/2020 8:26 AM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote: > The LGP-30 has been discussed here (often fondly) a few times so I thought > this might be of interest. Adds a bit of fame to the little guy that I > wasn't aware of. > > I was reading the wikipedia web page on chaos theory and found this passage: > > "Edward Lorenz was an early pioneer of the theory. His interest in chaos came > about accidentally through his work on weather prediction in 1961.[12] Lorenz > was using a simple digital computer, a Royal McBee LGP-30, to run his weather > simulation. He wanted to see a sequence of data again, and to save time he > started the simulation in the middle of its course. He did this by entering a > printout of the data that corresponded to conditions in the middle of the > original simulation. To his surprise, the weather the machine began to > predict was completely different from the previous calculation. " > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory#History > > Will >
So, either he mis-entered something, or possibly the result of a different state of a random number generator somewhere?
