Two representations of braid I.A.₄^i.c.(0.5) after 100 time units. Top: Unperturbed solution integrated for ten N-body time units. Bottom: Result of the perturbed solution in the same time frame. The introduced perturbation was 10⁻⁵ in the x coordinate. Both solutions have clearly deviated from the original braid, and from each other. By this time, the phase space distance between the two solutions is on the order of unity. The orbits are unstable, and in the next 100 crossing times, one particle is ejected.