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      Looking for cycles in an alternative representation of the Collatz sequences

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      Collatz conjecture

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            Would it be possible to define a procedure capable to find all the existing cycles within the Collatz sequences? In this article we address this question in two stages: in the first one, we propose an equivalent and reversible set of actions to represent any Hailstone sequence. In the second one, we show a condition which any loop satisfies within this new definition, ultimately revealing that the problem 3n + 1 generates just a single cycle for any value of n, being moreover, always reached.

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            22 October 2024
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            https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1571-2671
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            10.14293/PR2199.001163.v2
            b0c897a9-d651-4c22-a92b-1ba4dae31304

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            : 12 October 2024
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            General mathematics,Number theory
            Collatz conjecture

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