From a37c651a095903b375d6d29ecc5b635cc8983770 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robin Clark Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:01:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update readme.md --- readme.md | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md index 57cc9e6..d7c8e99 100644 --- a/readme.md +++ b/readme.md @@ -9,18 +9,18 @@ Background: Chaos Mathematics This game is based on chaos mathematics. Back in the 1980's a computer scientist/mathematician Beniort Mandelbrot discovered some maths functions that -behaved in very stange ways. Instead of smoothly changing +behaved in very strange ways. Instead of smoothly changing they became chaotic and unpredictable. -This facinated the IBM scientist (who incidentally, was also paid by his employer to -go up in planes and observe another chaotic phenomenem, the random shapes of clouds). +This fascinated the IBM scientist (who incidentally, was also paid by his employer to +go up in planes and observe another chaotic phenomenon, the random shapes of clouds). Natural Chaos: Nature will find a way ------------------------------------- -The film Jurasic park features a chaos mathmetician brought in to +The film Jurrassic park features a chaos mathematician brought in to look at the park and decide whether it was safe or not. -He conclusded it was not. Nature would find a way to adapt, and +He concluded it was not. Nature would find a way to adapt, and what they had done at the park was introduce a life form. Life forms can adapt and change. He reasoned that the dinosaurs in the park, would adapt, and later escape from the island causing a disaster! @@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ Enjoy the chaos! For Maths people ---------------- -This game secretly rotates and resizes the hidden mandelbrot shape. +This game secretly rotates and resizes the hidden Mandelbrot shape. It does this using complex numbers which naturally have an angle of rotation and a sizing factor associated with them. Complex numbers are a pair of numbers, one real, the type of number we use every day, and a stranger one, an imaginary one. -The imaginary one when multiplied by itsself becaomes a real number but minus! +The imaginary numbers when multiplied becomes a real numbers but minus! Most maths people use the term 'i' to denote a number if imaginary, but people who live in the real world, like electronic engineers (and python programmers) use 'j'.