Collatz Conjecture Calculator

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I made a project that calculates Collatz Conjecture.
Type any number and it will calculate it.

I know. If the number is too large it clips off the screen. I'm working on fixing that.

The Collatz Conjecture is simple.
You pick any positive interger, then

If its odd:
$$n$$ $$=$$ $$3n$$ $$+$$ $$1$$
If its even:
$$n$$ $$=$$ $$n/2$$
The conjecture is, is that the number will always fall to 4 then get stuck in the loop 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1 $$...$$ While unproven, 295,147,905,179,352,825,856 numbers have been checked by brute force as of 2020.

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Neat :slight_smile:

I watched a video once where they showed another 2d visualization: The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve - Collatz Conjecture - YouTube. If the result of 3n+1 is odd, you turn anticlockwise, if it's even, you turn clockwise.

p.s.: maybe let us know if you manage to get scrolling done. Would love to see that :slight_smile:

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Your projects is nice too!
Would like to see an ask block tho so that people don't have to go digging arround in the code to try it out.

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See, Jens, if we don't have bignums we can't contribute to this effort! :~P

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X~D