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RE: Unsolved Math Problem (Collatz Conjecture)
Yes, please share more about Collatz Conjecture. Wasn't aware of it before but you got me curious! :)
Does anyone know a way to show a PDF file on a Steemit post?
You guessed it. No other way at the moment. Grabbing screenshots while zooming in... then uploading here works.
Your pics are a little blurry there.
Thanks. And there's really no way yet (right?) to store pictures on the block chain is there? So if I upload pictures to a site online, they may not show up in this blog years from now.
Collatz Conjecture is a math sequence that always (as far as we know but it's not yet proven) returns to 1. Pick any positive whole number. Let's say you start with 5. If your number is odd, you always multiply by 3 and then add 1. 5x3=15+1=16. Now you have 16. Anytime you have an even number, you divide by 2 and you keep dividing by 2 until you end up with an odd number again. Then rinse and repeat by multiplying by 3 and adding 1.. etc. So 5 would turn into 16 which turns into 1. Now 1 is odd. So.. multiply by 3 gets you 3. Add 1 gets you 4. 4 divides by 2 until it hits 1 again. So now you're stuck.. 4,2,1..4,2,1.. forever. The conjecture is that all numbers will converge to 4,2,1. Some numbers grow very large before crashing back down to 4,2,1. I was working on methods of attack for solving this.