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Added noise

When conducting real experiments with electronics, the ratio of random noise to the notional (0,1) ranges of the iterating variables is of the order to 1. For small trapping regions, one observes the phenomenon of untrapping, where the noise releases the system from the fixed point, and it then sets off on another chaotic transient until the next trapping event. We shall play a tape of such a system. One can add noise in the simulation by summing 12 random numbers in the range (0,1) and subtracting 6. By the central limit theorem the resulting variable will be nearly Gaussianly distributed with unity standard deviation, and it may be scaled to the trap size. Figure 6 shows the visual behaviour of such a simulated noisy system.

  
Figure 6: A trapping iterated system with added noise



D Jefferies
Wed May 15 22:18:30 BST 1996