# The logistic map

## Cats

A population of $$n$$ parthenogenic cats increases from one generation $$g$$ to the next $$g+1$$ by a factor determined by the cats’ friskiness $$z$$:

\begin{equation*} n_{g+1} = z n_g \end{equation*}
\begin{equation*} n_{g} = z^t n_0 \end{equation*}

Unfortunately for the cats, the world can only support a total of $$C$$ cats, and as the number of cats $$n$$ closer to the cat carrying capacity $$C$$, cats begin to die . Thus, the equation above is only true when cats are very rare, otherwise:

\begin{equation*} n_{g+1} = z n_g - o n_g (C - n_g) \end{equation*}

Let $$r =$$

\begin{equation*} x_{t+1} = r x_t ( 1 - x_t ) \end{equation*}

where $$x$$ is the density of the cats and $$r$$ is their friskiness.

We’ll start the program with a big loop to try a bunch of different friskinesses to see how the population of cats does:

r = 2.5
while r < 4:
r = r + 0.001


On year 0, the cats will only be at 1% of their maximum density:

year = 0
x = 0.1


The cat population model:

while (year < 101) and (x > 0):
year = year + 1
x = r * x * (1 - x)
print (str(r) + "       " + str(x))