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A359247 The bottom entry in the absolute difference triangle of the elements in the Collatz trajectory of n.

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%I A359247 #32 Jan 09 2023 02:25:18
%S A359247 1,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,
%T A359247 1,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,1,0,
%U A359247 0,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,0
%N A359247 The bottom entry in the absolute difference triangle of the elements in the Collatz trajectory of n.
%H A359247 Michel Lagneau, <a href="/A359247/b359247.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>
%H A359247 <a href="/index/3#3x1">Index entries for sequences related to 3x+1 (or Collatz) problem</a>
%F A359247 a(2^n) = 1.
%e A359247 a(3) = 1 because the Collatz trajectory of 3 is T = [3, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1], and the absolute difference triangle of the elements of T is:
%e A359247   3  . 10  .  5  . 16  .  8  .  4  .  2  .  1
%e A359247      7  .  5  . 11  .  8  .  4  .  2  .  1
%e A359247         2  .  6  .  3  .  4  .  2  .  1
%e A359247            4  .  3  .  1  .  2  .  1
%e A359247               1  .  2  .  1  .  1
%e A359247                  1  .  1  .  0
%e A359247                     0  .  1
%e A359247                        1
%e A359247 with bottom entry a(3) = 1.
%t A359247 Collatz[n_]:=NestWhileList[If[EvenQ[#],#/2,3#+1]&,n,#>1&];Flatten[Table[Collatz[n],{n,10}]];Table[d=Collatz[m];While[Length[d]>1,d=Abs[Differences[d]]];d[[1]],{m,100}]
%o A359247 (PARI) a(n) = my(list=List([n])); while (n!=1, if(n%2, n=3*n+1, n=n/2); listput(list, n)); my(v = Vec(list)); while (#v != 1, v = vector(#v-1, k, abs(v[k+1]-v[k]))); v[1]; \\ _Michel Marcus_, Dec 23 2022
%Y A359247 Cf. A070165, A187203.
%K A359247 nonn
%O A359247 1,136
%A A359247 _Michel Lagneau_, Dec 22 2022