[Ads-l] butterfly effect

[Bill Mullins]

OED has [1972] and 1976

OED has probably considered and rejected Ray Bradbury's 1952 story "A Sound of Thunder" for a bracketed cite (Argosy, 10/1952):  "Killing one butterfly couldn’t be that important! Could it?"

I suggest, however:
[1969 Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc. 289
Or, would the flutter of a butterfly's wings ultimately amplify to the point where the numerical simulation departs from reality, so that there will come the time when they must be randomly related to each other?
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/50/5/1520-0477-50_5_286.xml?tab_body=pdf ]
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