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Reverse Collatz Paths

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The Collatz conjecture states that repeating the following algorithm starting with any positive integer eventually reaches the number 1.

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Running the Collatz algorithm in reverse starting at 1 creates a graph. The Collatz conjecture is equivalent to saying that this graph contains every positive integer.

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Contributed by: Jesse Nochella (March 2011)
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