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    The numbers that were odd would be multiplied by three, subtract one and then divide by two, and record your result. The number seventeen, twenty one, twentythree and twentyfive never stop? they start repeating once you get to number thirtyseven. Patterns on the Collatz conjecture are important because they helped me find the zero's and the one's patterns.

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    The numbers that were odd would be multiplied by three, subtract one and then divide by two, and record your result. The number seventeen, twenty one, twentythree and twentyfive never stop? they start repeating once you get to number thirtyseven. Patterns on the Collatz conjecture are important because they helped me find the zero's and the one's patterns.

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    The numbers that were odd would be multiplied by three, subtract one and then divide by two, and record your result. The number seventeen, twenty one, twentythree and twentyfive never stop? they start repeating once you get to number thirtyseven. Patterns on the Collatz conjecture are important because they helped me find the zero's and the one's patterns.

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    IamgraphingthenumbersIgotbyusingtheequation.

    3n1
    2 WhilefindingtheCollatz
    TrajectoryImadeafewmistakes.Whiledoingthemath,thenumbersthatwereoddwouldbe
    multipliedbythree,subtractoneandthendividebytwo,andrecordyourresult.Thenumbers
    thatwereevenaredividedbytwo.I'venoticedamistakewhenIwasdonewiththegraphthe
    rulethatIusedwastomultiplybythree,subtractoneandrecordmyresult.OnceIrecordedmy
    resultIthendividedbytwo,thenIwouldrecordmyresultagain.Ichosetodoanothergraph
    onegraphwillhavetherightresultsandthepreviousgraphwouldhavethesameresultswiththe
    mistakesincluded.AnobservationImadeduringthisprocesswasapattern,mostlyallthe
    numbersthatshouldn'tbeinthereareevennumbers.Onceyougettotheseednumberseventeen
    therewon'tbeanothernumberstoppingatonefromthenumbersonethroughtwentyfiveonly
    twelvenumbersstopwithone.Fournumberskeeponrepeatingwithoutgettingtonumbersone
    ortwo.Mostoftheseednumbersendwiththenumberfiveinsteadoftwoorone.
    Aconjectureisahypothesisoraneducatedguessthatmightworkeverytime,butitis
    notyetproventobewrongorright.Duringtheprocessaconjectureimadewasthatmostly
    everynumberwillendwiththenumberwillendwithtwoorone.Thenumberseventeen,twenty

    one,twentythreeandtwentyfiveneverstoptheystartrepeatingonceyougettonumber
    thirtyseven.Whatiunderstoodaboutmathematicsresearchisthatihavetolearnhowtodoit
    andnotjustreadaboutit.PatternsontheCollatzconjectureareimportantbecausetheyhelped
    mefindthezerosandtheonespatterns.Patternstomeareahugesteptohelpingmegettothe
    nextone.

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