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Challenge #475: The Collatz Conjecture

aatalai
15 - Aurora

I liked this one :) 

Carolyn
12 - Quasar
12 - Quasar

Solved!

 

Besides finding the maximum number of iterations, I also found the Min, Mean, Median, and Mode, because why not? For the Mode, there are 190 numbers that took exactly 52 iterations, which is almost 2% of the total population. I thought that was kind of interesting

 

I tried to make a graph but I got an Unhandled Exception, so I'll leave it here :) 

 

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Dhrish
8 - Asteroid

Solution

rmassambane
11 - Bolide

475!