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Aug-25-08, 11:01 PM (EST) |
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"Collatz poem"
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RE: A Mathematician's Nightmare ...while odd ones climb by half themselves then half a dollar more to keep the numbers whole. ... (As you can check with the applet, the first time the price happens to be lower than the original $27 comes on the 59th day. Short time afterwards, on day 110, the iterations enter the 4, 2, 1 loop.)Did you fail to notice that the poem is using (3n+1)/2? There is no 4,2,1 loop. The loop would be 2,1. |
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