A Conversation for The 3n+1 Conjecture - Proof Needed!

Numerical testing...

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If any of you feel like looking for a number for which this doesn't work, I'd recommend not bothering... I discovered that you can get quite a pretty pattern if you plot the number of steps it takes to get down to 1 against the starting number, and in doing so tested all the numbers up to 1,280,000,000 (by computer, of course smiley - smiley) and all of those work quite nicely...

But who's to say there isn't one vastly above that which doesn't work? Nobody, yet...

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