True But Unproven - the Collatz Conjecture

On Saturday, July 31, 2010 12:46:07 PM UTC-7, Larry wrote: Hi Everyone, I recently learned about the

On Jan 9, 4:34 pm, Mensanator <mensana...@aol.com> wrote: > On Jan 9, 1:43 pm, bill <b92.

On Sep 10, 2:18 pm, jillbones <b92...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Sep 9, 5:57 pm, Mensanator <

http://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.3086v3

and the number of odd integers required for the existence of a loop http://www.4shared.com/file/

On Jul 20, 2:36�am, rpg16 <roupam.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Secondly, have you noticed that

On Jun 21, 1:42�pm, jillbones <b92...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Jun 12, 10:32�pm, Mensanator

On Jun 18, 1:07 pm, roupam <roupam.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I dont want to be rude... But I

On Jun 17, 11:42 pm, roupam ghosh <roupam.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Good idea. You'

On Jun 8, 2:40 am, roupam <roupam.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > A loop a(1), a(2), ...

On Jun 3, 2:40 am, roupam <roupam.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have found, that if there

All I can tell you is that I "know" the underlying pattern of this function and your

What was I thinking? Should have cross-posted this here. --------------------------------------------

A Collatz Conjecture comic book. <http://members.aol.com/mensanator/cycle/ultimate_cycle.htm>

On Apr 13, 12:12�pm, The Passer-by <no.m...@dyn-212-83-147-25.ppp.tiscali.fr> wrote: Sorry I

On Feb 12, 3:51 pm, alfansome <alfans...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Feb 12, 2:34 pm, "

On Feb 1, 1:34 pm, bill <b92...@yahoo.com> wrote: > O_(i+1) = (3 * O_i + 1) / (2 ^n) > O_

It seems I did all that work on step ups for nothing, as there is a serious problem in the previous

On Jan 10, 9:04 pm, bill <b92...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Jan 10, 2:47 pm, "mensana...@

On Dec 26, 12:21 am, mugbuff <at...@waitrose.com> wrote: > put c = 7 then 29 then 117 for

On Nov 17, 9:44 pm, "mensana...@aol.com" <mensana...@aol.com> wrote: > On Nov 17,

On Nov 9, 12:00 am, "mensana...@aol.com" <mensana...@aol.com> wrote: > Did you

One way to extend Collatz is via 3n+C (and we'll only consider odd values of C that are not

Johan van der Galien wrote: > Dear Newsgroup Readers, > > Paul Stadfeld has submitted a

bill wrote: > bill wrote: > > I find that sequences starting with seeds = (2^n - 1) + (k*2^n

way not to compile Python 0.91 I chose the compiler Borland Turbo C ++ 1.01 free because it compiles

jotas wrote: > KK wrote: > > hi, > > I have a problem: > > There is: > >

Eric wrote: > Hi mensanator, > > One question and one remark. > > 1) -17c > > in

>From [FAQ] Factor Congruence, we found the non-trivial attractor by searching only those Sequence

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