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A006884 In the `3x+1' problem, these values for the starting value set new records for highest point of trajectory before reaching 1.
(Formerly M0843)
+0
15
1, 2, 3, 7, 15, 27, 255, 447, 639, 703, 1819, 4255, 4591, 9663, 20895, 26623, 31911, 60975, 77671, 113383, 138367, 159487, 270271, 665215, 704511, 1042431, 1212415, 1441407, 1875711, 1988859, 2643183, 2684647, 3041127, 3873535, 4637979, 5656191 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENT

Both the 3x+1 steps and the halving steps are counted.

REFERENCES

B. Hayes, Computer Recreations: On the ups and downs of hailstone numbers, Scientific American, 250 (No. 1, 1984), pp. 10-16.

D. R. Hofstadter, Goedel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Random House, 1980, p. 400.

G. T. Leavens and M. Vermeulen, 3x+1 search problems, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 24 (1992), 79-99.

R. B. Banks, Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventues in Applied Mathematics, Princeton Univ. Press, 1999. See p. 96.

LINKS

T. D. Noe and N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..89 (from Eric Roosendaal's data, supplemented by further values from the web page of Tomas Oliveira e Silva)

J. C. Lagarias, The 3x+1 problem and its generalizations, Amer. Math. Monthly, 92 (1985), 3-23.

Tomas Oliveira e Silva, Tables (gives many more terms)

Eric Roosendaal, 3x+1 Path Records

Index entries for sequences related to 3x+1 (or Collatz) problem

Index entries for sequences from "Goedel, Escher, Bach"

CROSSREFS

A060409 gives associated "dropping times", A060410 the maximal values and A060411 the steps at which the maxima occur.

Cf. A006885, A006877, A006878, A033492, A060412-A060415, A132348.

Sequence in context: A098763 A066044 A066460 this_sequence A074742 A020873 A049958

Adjacent sequences: A006881 A006882 A006883 this_sequence A006885 A006886 A006887

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,easy

AUTHOR

njas, mrob(AT)mrob.com (Robert P Munafo)

EXTENSIONS

b-file extended by njas, Nov 27 2007

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