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%I A216059 #14 Feb 16 2025 08:33:18 %S A216059 2,3,6,3,3,7,3,3,3,3,3,7,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3, %T A216059 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3, %U A216059 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3 %N A216059 Smallest number not in Collatz trajectory starting at n. %C A216059 a(n) <= 7; a(A007283(n)) = 7; %C A216059 a(n) <> 4; a(n) <> 4; a(n) <> 6 for n > 3; %C A216059 a(n) = A216022(n) + 1. %H A216059 Reinhard Zumkeller, <a href="/A216059/b216059.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000</a> %H A216059 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CollatzProblem.html">Collatz Problem</a> %H A216059 Wikipedia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture">Collatz conjecture</a> %H A216059 <a href="/index/3#3x1">Index entries for sequences related to 3x+1 (or Collatz) problem</a> %t A216059 scoll[n_]:=Sort[NestWhileList[If[EvenQ[#],#/2,3#+1] &,n,#>1 &]]; Join[{2,3},Table[i=1; While[scoll[n][[i]]==i,i++]; i,{n,3,86}]] (* _Jayanta Basu_, May 27 2013 *) %o A216059 (Haskell) %o A216059 import Data.List ((\\)) %o A216059 a216059 n = head $ enumFromTo 1 (maximum ts + 1) \\ ts %o A216059 where ts = a070165_row n %Y A216059 Cf. A006370, A070165. %K A216059 nonn %O A216059 1,1 %A A216059 _Reinhard Zumkeller_, Sep 01 2012