Can a butterfly moving its wings in a garden in Mombasa, have the power to influence weather conditions on the island of Madagascar? Tiny, seemingly insignificant shifts can make all the difference in success in the Kenyan business landscape.
Edward Lorenz was a research meteorologist at MIT in 1961 who was writing computer programmes, creating algorithms that represented weather patterns. Normally, when Lorenz keyed in the numbers he would use 6 significant digits, for instance, 123456 but on this day in 1961 he was in a bit of a rush, and input just three digits 123 assuming that such a small difference in a fraction of thousands would have no real impact. Wrong.
