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Lengths of the 3x+1 trajectories associated with the record values in A006884.
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%I #11 Apr 01 2022 09:13:39

%S 0,1,7,16,17,111,47,97,131,170,161,201,170,184,255,307,160,334,231,

%T 247,162,183,406,441,242,439,328,367,370,427,430,399,363,322,573,400,

%U 483,576,606,483,572,438,475,592,770,726,543,836,555,770,871,796,1109,755

%N Lengths of the 3x+1 trajectories associated with the record values in A006884.

%D R. B. Banks, Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics, Princeton Univ. Press, 1999. See p. 96.

%H Brian Hayes, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/24969271">Computer Recreations: On the ups and downs of hailstone numbers</a>, Scientific American, 250 (No. 1, 1984), pp. 10-16.

%K nonn

%O 1,3

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_, Nov 10 2007

%E Extended by _T. D. Noe_, Apr 27 2010