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If \(A\) is a metric space, the author defines a map \(f:A\rightarrow A\) as chaotic, if there is a constant \(h>0\) such that for any \(a\in A\) and any neighbourhood \(V\) of \(a\), there exists \(b\in V\), a positive integer \(n\) such that the distance between \(f^n(a)\) and \(f^n(b)\) is not less than \(h\). The main result of the paper is that if \(f\) is continuous, quasiperiodic and for every nonempty open set \(D\) there is a positive integer \(k\) such that \(f^k(D)\) is dense, than \(f\) is chaotic. Some piece-wise linear maps are considered as examples, proving thus that this notion of chaos is different from that introduced by Devaney.