Re: computer-go: Which Maths Is OT?

[John Aspinall <jga@xxxxxxx>]

At 7:09 PM -0500 11/4/99, Avijit Ghosh wrote:
>On the other hand, my understanding of chaotic dynamics (from the outside)
>was they were really just formalizing the idea that a small *volume* of
>phase space will distribute infinitely when propagated over time in an
>ergodic system (I don't see what discreteness has to do w/ preventing
>something being "chaotic" as my understanding of the word but i'll take
>your word for it).

You don't have a sufficiently powerful notion of distance (and, therefore,
volume) in the discrete space.  (Hence my earlier question about metrics.)