Related idea which I don't see mentioned yet: William Bricken's iconic arithmetic, with regards to what he calls James Algebra. I don't have my copy of the material handy but it comes down to using different containers…
To clarify my question above, there seems to be a general rule for calculating the next step in any Collatz-like iterated sequence from one odd number to the next, given the parameters (c, D) where both c and D are…
Would it be at all useful to be able to state the rule for calculating the coefficients (in base-3) from one odd number to the next in the Collatz conjecture's evolution? That is, given an odd number's base-3 expansion,…
Related idea which I don't see mentioned yet: William Bricken's iconic arithmetic, with regards to what he calls James Algebra. I don't have my copy of the material handy but it comes down to using different containers…
To clarify my question above, there seems to be a general rule for calculating the next step in any Collatz-like iterated sequence from one odd number to the next, given the parameters (c, D) where both c and D are…
Would it be at all useful to be able to state the rule for calculating the coefficients (in base-3) from one odd number to the next in the Collatz conjecture's evolution? That is, given an odd number's base-3 expansion,…