Progress on the Collatz conjecture

1 · John Cook · Sept. 10, 2019, 8:15 p.m.
The Collatz conjecture is for computer science what until recently Fermat’s last theorem was for mathematics: a famous unsolved problem that is very simple to state. The Collatz conjecture, also known as the 3n+1 problem, asks whether the following function terminates for all positive integer arguments n. def collatz(n): if n == 1: return 1 […]...