Thomas Stig Jacobsen's constant why

So right now I’m writing a rather huge project in school about “mathematical chaos theory in conjunction with traditional statistics in relation with a chemical experiment”. It’s REALLY exciting and fun (in a very geeky way). When working with numeric chaotic datasets it’s really handy to show the dataset in a graphical way. I of course choose to use the Google Chart API and created a simple sample application based on the “Valentine's Grouse”. The application can be altered by editing the GET parameter called “k”.

The application

The application with the “k” parameter set to “2.9”

The application is programmed in PHP and the source code can be seen here.