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      THE COLLATZ REGULAR LANGUAGE

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            Abstract

            Does the Collatz conjecture shelter a regular language? In this article we address that question representing the Collatz sequences as words from the language L, accepted by the deterministic finite automaton M.

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            11 July 2023
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            [1 ] Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC);
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            https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1571-2671
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            10.14293/PR2199.000224.v1
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            : 11 July 2023
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            Discrete mathematics & Graph theory,General mathematics,Number theory

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