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Transcript -- Edward Lorenz and Chaos Theory

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Nov 26, 2014Education

Transcript -- Why can’t we get a good weather forecast? Meteorologist Edward Lorenz tried to predict the weather but in the end all he discovered were chaotic systems, leading him to declare long term weather forecasting...

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