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 The variety of divergent trajectories with various Lyapunov exponents makes the problem too difficult for undergraduate courses.  So says wikipedia. The variety of divergent trajectories with various Lyapunov exponents makes the problem too difficult for undergraduate courses.  So says wikipedia.
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 +My understanding is that it just gets really really complicated because the interaction of body 1 with body 2 changes how they interact with body 3 which then changes again how body 1 and 2 react, etc etc.  However, i think this problem only applies when doing it by hand considering the large number of N body simulations that are being done by computer(dark matter collapse, what-have-you).  
  
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