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A127929 A127928(n) mod 18. 1
3, 7, 1, 1, 7, 1, 7, 7, 1, 1, 7, 1, 1, 1, 7, 7, 1, 7, 1, 7, 7, 7, 7, 1, 1, 7, 7, 7, 1, 1, 1, 7, 7, 1, 7, 1, 7, 7, 7, 7, 1, 1, 1, 7, 1, 7, 1, 7 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Aside from "3", all terms of A127928 must be 1 or 7 mod 18 (see A127928 for mod rules); but not all primes mod 1 or 7 are pure hailstone numbers. For example, the prime 61 == 7 mod 18 but 61 is impure. Conjecture: for large n, the numbers of 1 and 7 mod 18 terms are approximately equal.

REFERENCES

Douglas J. Shaw, "The Pure Numbers Generated by the Collatz Sequence", Fibonacci Quarterly, August, 2006, p. 201.

FORMULA

Pure hailstone (Collatz) numbers that are also prime (i.e. the set A127928), mod 18.

EXAMPLE

a(5) = 7 since A127928(5) = 43 and 43 == 7 mod 18.

CROSSREFS

Cf. A127928, A127930, A061641, A127633, A006577, A066903.

Sequence in context: A072450 A085785 A200235 * A200922 A003118 A096409

Adjacent sequences:  A127926 A127927 A127928 * A127930 A127931 A127932

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Gary W. Adamson (qntmpkt(AT)yahoo.com), Feb 07 2007

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