A222562 Numbers that are highest in their respective Collatz (3x+1) trajectories only.

1, 2, 4, 8, 20, 24, 32, 48, 56, 68, 72, 80, 84, 96, 104, 116, 128, 132, 144, 152, 168, 176, 180, 192, 200, 212, 224, 228, 240, 260, 264, 272, 276, 288, 296, 308, 312, 320, 324, 336, 344, 356, 360, 368, 372, 384, 392, 404, 408, 416, 452, 456, 464, 468, 480, 488

Offset: 1

Author

Jayanta Basu, Feb 27 2013

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

This is effectively the complement of A176869 in A033496, excluding numbers which are also highest in trajectories less than the number itself.

Links

• T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000

Crossrefs

Cf. A033496, A176869.

Programs

Mathematica

Collatz[n_] := NestWhileList[If[EvenQ[#], #/2, 3 # + 1] &, n, # > 1 &]; oldMax = {}; t = {}; Do[c = Collatz[n]; If[! MemberQ[oldMax, n] && Max[c] == n, AppendTo[t, n]]; oldMax = Union[oldMax, {Max[c]}], {n, 416}]; t (* T. D. Noe, Feb 28 2013 *)