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A060411
In the '3x+1' problem, take the sequence of starting values which set new records for the highest point of the trajectory before reaching 1 (A006884); sequence gives iterate where maximal value is reached in the trajectory with that start.
4
0, 2, 3, 4, 45, 8, 31, 14, 48, 28, 49, 33, 26, 50, 35, 43, 67, 39, 69, 39, 35, 124, 83, 37, 132, 46, 81, 75, 83, 118, 68, 42, 72, 97, 98, 75, 92, 199, 109, 92, 92, 160, 91, 197, 119, 113, 109, 124, 176, 217, 234, 276, 172, 164, 233, 101, 109, 158, 157
OFFSET
1,2
LINKS
N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..88 (from the web page of Tomás Oliveira e Silva)
Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Tables (gives many more terms)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Apr 06 2001; b-file added Nov 27 2007
STATUS
approved