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A074472
Length of iteration sequence of Collatz-function (A006370) when initial value is 3^n (A000244) and final cycle is followed once.
12
1, 8, 20, 112, 23, 97, 34, 77, 76, 44, 136, 135, 134, 133, 145, 206, 130, 191, 141, 96, 95, 262, 429, 92, 259, 395, 332, 256, 255, 391, 390, 389, 463, 462, 461, 460, 459, 458, 457, 456, 455, 454, 502, 501, 451, 499, 498, 753, 496, 495, 494, 749, 492, 747, 490
OFFSET
0,2
EXAMPLE
n=2: initial value=3^2, list of iterates is {9,28,14,7,22,11,34,17,52,26,13,50,20,10,5,16,8,4,2,1} length=a(2)=20; Observe that consecutive powers of 3 as arguments frequently provide iteration-lengths of consecutive integers, for instance n=10,11,12,13 give L=136,135,134,133 or n=88-96 result in L=1278-1271.
MATHEMATICA
f[x_] := (1-Mod[x, 2])*(x/2)+(Mod[x, 2])*(3*x+1); f[1]=1; Table[1+Length[FixedPointList[f, 3^w]], {w, 1, 100}]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Labos Elemer, Sep 19 2002
STATUS
approved