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Thecollatzconjectureiswhereyoutaketheoriginalnumber,orseed,and,ifodd,

multiplybythree,addone,anddividebytwo.Iftheseediseventhenyoujustdividebytwo.You
recordtheresultsuntilthenumbersoneandtwostarttorepeat.Thoughnotproven,Ibelievethat
thiswillhappentomostnumbers,althoughsomenegativenumbersrepeatwiththenumbers10,
5,and8.Ialsonoticedthatthefirstrow,startingwithseedone,thereisapatternofeven,odd,
odd,evenrepeating.

Aconjectureisahypothesis,aneducatedguess,thatworksforeveryvaluethatwetry,
buthasyettobeprovenforallvalues.InoticedwhendoingthisprojectthatIwasreallyrelaxed
andnothingreallystressedmeout.Ilovedthecodingbecauseitwaseasiertoseeanypatterns
thatwastherethatyoucouldntreallyseebefore.ThepatternsIsawsortofhelpedmepredict
howlongthenextsetwouldbe.

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