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- From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine)
- Subject: That Collatz Flu
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:51:04 GMT
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- I've gotten interested in the Collatz function. (I guess it's something
- every math person has to go through for a week, like the flu.)
-
- (Collatz function: f(n) = n/2 if n is even
- = (3n + 1)/2 if n is odd.
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- It is conjectured that for every n > 0, there is a k such that f^k(n)
- (the kth iterate of f) = 1.)
-
- What I'm wondering is: Has it been shown that there are no n > 2 such
- that f^k (n) = n?
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- Also, any major results later than the 1985 survey article?
-
- Lenore Levine
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