| P. Collet Ecole Polytechnique, Laboratoire de Physique Theorique F-91128 Palaiseau, France |
J. P. Crutchfield Physics Board of Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, California 95064 USA |
J. P. Eckmann, Department de Physique Theorique, Universite de Geneve CH-1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland |
ABSTRACT: We give an algorithm for determining the topological entropy of a unimodal map of the interval given its kneading sequence. We also show that this algorithm converges exponentially in the number of letters of the kneading sequence.