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•  Each positive Lyapunov exponent represents a "direction" in which the system experiences the stretching that causes unpredictability.

•  The exponential expansion indicated by a positive Lyapunov exponent is incompatible with motion on a bounded attractor unless some sort of folding takes place.

•  An attractor with one or more positive Lyapunov exponents is "chaotic" or "strange".