David Fontaine wrote:

> Hey, I read in the book
> Chaos that some guy discovered another important irrational number, like
> e and pi, that comes up as a sort of 'octave multiplier' (if you get
> what i mean) in bifurcation diagrams and other chaosy stuff.

Perhaps you are referring to the Feigenbaum constants?

http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/constant/constant.html

http://pauillac.inria.fr/algo/bsolve/constant/fgnbaum/general.html

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