Using Wikipedia’s pseudocode description of the Collatz Conjecture, I whipped something up in Python. Try it!


n = int(input("What number would you like to explore? "))
while n > 1:
     print(n)
     if n % 2 != 0:
         n = 3*n + 1
     else:
         n = n/2
print(n)

 

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Brie