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A025586 Largest value in `3x+1' trajectory of n. 34
1, 2, 16, 4, 16, 16, 52, 8, 52, 16, 52, 16, 40, 52, 160, 16, 52, 52, 88, 20, 64, 52, 160, 24, 88, 40, 9232, 52, 88, 160, 9232, 32, 100, 52, 160, 52, 112, 88, 304, 40, 9232, 64, 196, 52, 136, 160, 9232, 48, 148, 88, 232, 52, 160, 9232, 9232, 56, 196, 88, 304, 160, 184, 9232 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..10000

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

P. Picart, Algorithme de Collatz et conjecture de Syracuse

MATHEMATICA

Collatz[a0_Integer, maxits_:1000] := NestWhileList[If[EvenQ[ # ], #/2, 3# + 1] &, a0, Unequal[ #, 1, -1, -10, -34] &, 1, maxits]; (* Collatz[n] function definition by Eric Weisstein *) Flatten[Table[Take[Sort[Collatz[n], Greater], 1], {n, 60}]] - Alonso Delarte (alonso.delarte(AT)gmail.com), Nov 14 2007

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=my(r=n); while(n>2, if(n%2, n=3*n+1; if(n>r, r=n), n/=2)); r \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 19 2011

CROSSREFS

Essentially the same as A056959.

Sequence in context: A036164 A076536 A110009 * A087251 A110008 A110875

Adjacent sequences:  A025583 A025584 A025585 * A025587 A025588 A025589

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

David W. Wilson (davidwwilson(AT)comcast.net)

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