The 3n+1 Problem

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Start with a number. Then at each step, if is even, compute , and if is odd, compute . So far as anyone can tell, the resulting sequence always eventually reaches 1. But despite work since the 1930s, no proof is known.

Contributed by: Stephen Wolfram (March 2011)
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