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math is hard (lemm.ee)
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[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

This don't avoid to sleep not even for 1/2 second. But pick any number. If that number is even, divide it by 2. If it's odd, multiply it by 3 and add 1. Now repeat the process with your new number. If you keep going, you'll eventually end up at 1.

[-] bahbah23@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

You can't prove that!

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, but everyone tried since a century to find a number with which it don't work, good to avoid sleep.

[-] SpoopyKing@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

Any positive number?

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