Triple Pendulum

The triple pendulum problem illustrates the behavior of a chaotic system which is highly sensitive to minor perturbations that can lead to drastic alterations of the trajectory of the system as a whole. Even very minor errors due to floating point arithmetic will lead to totally different simulated behaviors, making this problem an excellent benchmark to demonstrate the importance of bit-reversibility. This particular demonstration was inspired by the interactive Exact Bitwise Reversible Integrator created by Jos Stam.[1]

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Jos Stam. An exact bitwise reversible integrator. 2022. URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07695, arXiv:2207.07695.