Collatz Conjecture on a Circle

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The Collatz conjecture starts with any natural number , then applies when is even and when is odd. According to the conjecture, repeating this procedure eventually reaches 1 for any starting number . The sequence of iterates this procedure produces is called the Collatz path of . This Demonstration shows this path for the first integers by arranging the integers around a circle in counterclockwise order from 1 (marked with a circle).

Contributed by: Hector Sanchez (February 2012)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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