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collatz conjecture

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.28 in modern English

Syllables
col-latz -con-jec-ture
IPA
39
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The conjecture that the process of taking a number n and, if n is even, dividing it by 2, or if n is odd, multiplying it by 3 and adding 1, then repeating this process, will eventually yield 1.

Etymology

Named after Lothar Collatz, who first proposed it in 1937.

Questions

What does collatz conjecture mean?
The conjecture that the process of taking a number n and, if n is even, dividing it by 2, or if n is odd, multiplying it by 3 and adding 1, then repeating this process, will eventually yield 1.
Where does collatz conjecture come from?
Named after Lothar Collatz, who first proposed it in 1937.

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