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A060412
In the '3x+1' problem, these values for the starting value set new records for the "dropping time", number of steps to reach a lower value than the start.
17
2, 3, 7, 27, 703, 10087, 35655, 270271, 362343, 381727, 626331, 1027431, 1126015, 8088063, 13421671, 20638335, 26716671, 56924955, 63728127, 217740015, 1200991791, 1827397567, 2788008987, 12235060455
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
The (3x+1)/2 steps and the halving steps are counted. - Don Reble, May 13 2006
Where records occur in A102419 (could be prefixed by an initial 1). - N. J. A. Sloane, Oct 20 2012
LINKS
N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..35 (from the web page of Tomás Oliveira e Silva)
Tomás Oliveira e Silva, Tables
Eric Roosendaal, On the 3x + 1 problem
N. J. A. Sloane, First 36 terms of A217934 and A060412 [From Roosendaal web site]
EXAMPLE
See A102419.
MATHEMATICA
dcoll[n_]:=Length[NestWhileList[If[EvenQ[#], #/2, 3#+1]&, n, #>=n&]]; t={max=2}; Do[If[(y=dcoll[n])>max, max=y; AppendTo[t, n]], {n, 3, 1130000, 4}]; t (* Jayanta Basu, May 28 2013 *)
CROSSREFS
A060413 gives associated "dropping times", A060414 the maximal values and A060415 the steps at which the maxima occur. See also A217934.
Sequence in context: A052877 A137075 A270347 * A276665 A062573 A019435
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Apr 06 2001; b-file added Nov 27 2007
STATUS
approved