thats what it does but in order to just be able to let it sit and work for as long as it can i made it a endless loop of just trying every number, for now it just displays the highest on the screen but it would be nice to get it in a text document
thanks On Aug 30, 2007, at 4:53 AM, Kent Johnson wrote: > max baseman wrote: >> right it's for a quick math "game" the rules are simple you start >> with any number to get the next number you, a. if it's odd >> multiply by 3 than add 1 or b. if it's even divide by two, the >> point of this is to see how long it takes to get to one are it >> starts to repeat 4,2,1,4,2,1... >> now im looking for a a number with a very high amount of numbers >> till you get to 1 so every time it's finds a new one i would like >> it to write that to a file and clear the last entry, > > If your goal is to find long sequences why not write your program > to try every number up to some limit and find the longest? > > It's a nice use of generators, for those who know what they are... > > These sequences are known as hailstone numbers. The (unproven) > conjecture that the sequence will always terminate is called > Collatz' Conjecture. Some interesting info and pictures here: > http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/hailstone.html > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CollatzProblem.html > > Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor