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by loxias 525 days ago
You subtly referenced one of my favorite facts.

"In 1920, Pierre Fatou expressed the conjecture that -- except for special cases -- all critical points of a rational map of the Riemann sphere tend to periodic orbits under iteration. ... can be interpreted to mean that for a dense set of parameters 'a', an attracting periodic orbit exists [in the logistic map]."

Friggin' blew my mind at age 20. Still kinda does. :)