Technical Note
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On the Equality of ‘Stopping Times’ of Hailstone Numbers
Version 1
: Received: 16 December 2023 / Approved: 17 December 2023 / Online: 18 December 2023 (07:18:11 CET)
How to cite: Dalal, A. On the Equality of ‘Stopping Times’ of Hailstone Numbers. Preprints 2023, 2023121215. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1215.v1 Dalal, A. On the Equality of ‘Stopping Times’ of Hailstone Numbers. Preprints 2023, 2023121215. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1215.v1
Abstract
This short technical note proves some observed novel corollaries of the Collatz Conjecture. For this, a unique ‘Collatz Representation’ of Hailstone numbers has been employed. After that, an extension of this corollary is explained using the fact that only certain differences in the last digit of the ‘Collatz Representation’ gives a whole number difference between numbers. A more general result is obtained. The final proof is for a corollary that some numbers the same number of steps to reach 1 if the Collatz Conjecture is true and all variables are whole numbers.
Keywords
Collatz Conjecture, Proof, Induction
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Algebra and Number Theory
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