Saturday, May 9, 2026

Collatz Conjecture or 3n+1 Problem

Saturday 09 May 2026

Well, it is not a solution as the great mathematicians tried! After some rough work and thinking about probabilities in my mind. Calculation of probabilities for even or odd outside the loop and inside the loop reveals a difference of half. If input is even, there are two possibilities inside the loop, whereas for odd input, there is only even output. Considering internal probabilities equally likely, that is, 1/3.