Supplement to the Collatz Conjecture

Anatoliy Nikolaychuk

doi:10.24297/jam.v15i0.7876

Authors

Anatoliy Nikolaychuk Dr.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24297/jam.v15i0.7876

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sequences

Abstract

For any natural number was created the supplement sequence, that is convergent together with the original sequence. The parameter - index was defined, that is the same tor both sequences. This new method provides the following results:

All natural numbers were distributed into different classes according to the corresponding indexes;
The analytic formulas ( not by computer performed routine calculations) were produced, the formulas for groups of consecutive natural numbers of different lengths, having the same index;
The new algorithm to find index for any natural number was constructed and proved.

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