...and nothing more
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
Python is a very cool programming language that I've started learning. It's extremely powerful and I've already done some neat stuff with it. I wrote an interactive sales tax calculator for PA residents. (I'm working on a version that will let you tell me what state you are in and output the information appropriately.
# This is actually the cost of the item and the tax. This would be a ridiculous tax rate.
tax = 1.07
price = raw_input("How much is your item before tax? ")
totalcost = float(price) * float(tax)
finalanswer = round(totalcost, 2)
print finalanswer
Here's a screenshot of how it works:
