Recap from last thread (>>13509310):
I wasn't trying to hide anything, I haven't recovered my notes yet. Fuck the people suggesting that. Some of the nontrivial information I've shared or implied is this:
Collatz conjecture implies convergence. Convergence implies that if the initial input isn't a power of 2, it will eventually reach/ iterate to a power of 2, and powers of 2 are guaranteed to converge to the trivial cycle.
If n isn't a power of two, continuously dividing by two isn't the last step to get to a power of 2 (obviously). You will reach an odd number that isn't 1. 3n + 1 is the last step to reach what I call the critical hailstone point, where some power of 2 equals 3n + 1.
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I wasn't trying to hide anything, I haven't recovered my notes yet. Fuck the people suggesting that. Some of the nontrivial information I've shared or implied is this:
Collatz conjecture implies convergence. Convergence implies that if the initial input isn't a power of 2, it will eventually reach/ iterate to a power of 2, and powers of 2 are guaranteed to converge to the trivial cycle.
If n isn't a power of two, continuously dividing by two isn't the last step to get to a power of 2 (obviously). You will reach an odd number that isn't 1. 3n + 1 is the last step to reach what I call the critical hailstone point, where some power of 2 equals 3n + 1.
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