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The link points to one of the stable solutions, and there are actually quite a few of those. The problem is that there’s no general closed form that tells us exactly where the bodies will be in the future, so we rely on numerical methods to approximate the motion. If you hit Reset All a few times or add more bodies, you’ll start to see the chaos
parent jgchaos 11 months ago

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