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He was a combat officer in Vietnam, a sales and marketing director in the

home improvement industry and along way a working writer and still is. He has a book out

entitled Tiny Blunders. Big disasters, 39 mistakes that change the world forever. That is

our topic today. Welcome, Mr. Knott. Good to be here. Thank you very much. It's an honor.

Thank you. Thank you. Well, first thing is, what is the butterfly effect?

Yes, there was a mathematician, Lorenz, and he was one of the leading mathematician,

by the way, the creators of chaos theory,

and he was at his peak, I guess, back in the 1950s and 60s.

And he was working one day on a particular mathematical problem, which is being used to predict

the weather.

And it was a number with a decimal, and I think it was like 18 different numbers behind the decimal. And it was taking number with a decimal and I think it was like 18 different numbers behind

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