Sensitive dependence on initial conditions is literally the point of tossing a coin
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Coin-flipping was used by the Romans and analyzed by Jacob Bernoulli in 1713. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions was first noticed by Poincare in 1890. So the latter can hardly be the point of the former.
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You can see SDoIC in the _physical process_ that generates coin-flipping if you squint, but the point of coin flipping is independence and uniformity.
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I don't have to squint to see the latter features being caused by the former.
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Yeah but it's irrelevant. When people talk about coin flips they're just talking about a certain probability measure over bit strings. There are no meaningful dynamics involved.
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That's not the point of the metaphor. The average of many results of a function with a random element is easier to predict then the average of few results. That goes whether or not there is also a non-random element.
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Kids these days and their statistical illiteracy
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