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Collatz conjecture

name

Etymology

Named after Lothar Collatz, who first proposed it in 1937.

Definitions

  1. The conjecture that the process of taking a number n and, if n is even, dividing it by 2,…

    The conjecture that the process of taking a number n and, if n is even, dividing it by 2, or if n is odd, multiplying it by 3 and adding 1, then repeating this process, will eventually yield 1.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Collatz conjecture. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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