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# The Game of Chaos

NOVA is a science program that runs on PBS. On a past show they discussed the idea of chaos. At the begining of the show they showed a game called THE GAME OF CHAOS.

Here is how the game works. On a board are three points in a triangular formation, numbered 1, 2 and 3. You randomly place a point some where on the board (P1). You roll a three-sided die to get a number from 1 to 3. This will tell you what point to refer to. In our example we rolled a 3. Now draw a point that is half way from your original point to the numbered point (P2). Now keep doing this many many times.