Repeated iteration of a Collatz-type function

• Main Authors: Navarro, Louelle Dawn P., Olviga, Mari Nelle O.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1998
• Subjects: Functions; Algorithms; Numerical analysis; Iterative methods (Mathematics)
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/16506
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study provides detailed exposition of Collatz 3X + 1 problem which concerns the behavior of the iterates of the function which takes odd integer n to 3n+1/2 and even integer to n/2. The main result contained in the article by Daniel A. Rawsthorne entitled Imitation of an Iteration gives a proba...