The Tamari attractor is the attractor of a three-dimensional autonomous system introduced as a model of cyclical economic growth. A commonly plotted form satisfies
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where 
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, 
, 
, 
, 
, 
, 
, and 
are parameters. The values 
, 
, 
, 
, 
, 
, 
, and 
produce a bounded aperiodic map
orbit with a folded band structure.
The name refers to the particular system rather than to a general class of attractors. As with other numerically displayed strange attractors, the appearance depends on the parameters, initial conditions, integration interval, and projection.
