Struggling with the 3x + 1 problem

DOI10.2307/3617045MaRDI QIDQ3775609zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 1987

Published in The Mathematical Gazette (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/3617045

zbMATH Keywords

3x\(+1\) problemCollatz functiongeneralized Fibonacci numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Recurrences (11B37) Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39)

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