Collatz Conjecture/Examples/17

Example of Collatz Process

The following integer sequence is generated from $17$ by the Collatz process:

$17 \to 52 \to 26 \to 13 \to 40 \to 20 \to 10 \to 5 \to 16 \to 8 \to 4 \to 2 \to 1$

Sources

• 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $27$
• 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $27$