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Comment by colechristensen

The question is what happens with a small perturbation and how does it "grow".

For a two body problem, you nudge one of the bodies and it is forever off by a small amount, but your predictions into infinity require only a small adjustment to compensate.

For a three body problem you nudge one of the bodies and only for a very short time do your previous predictions stay true, the change amplifies until nothing you thought might happen before the nudge means anything at all, and a common occurrence is one of the bodies being ejected.

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