Every so often I come upon a mathematical principal that I've never heard before. In these times, as a nerd turned geek, it is important for me to quickly remedy the situation. I can always turn to my good friends google and wikipedia to bring me wisdom and elightenment. Recently, I had this experience. I came upon this xkcd comic.
It refers to the collatz conjecture which states that if you take any number, if it is odd, multiply it by 3 and add one and if it is even divide by 2. And you repeat this process you will eventually get 1. I was intrigued. This comic was written for nerd culture. How could I not know about the conjecture beforehand? I had to know if it was true. Well, I wrote some javascript that tests the conjecture. You pick a number and put it in the first box, then click run and it will show you all the numbers until it arrives at 1. I may be the only one who even cares about this conjecture, but I feel much more secure in my life now that I know the conjecture to be true.
P.S. Sorry, just like my other javascript posts it still doesn't work in firefox.
Nope, you are just a plain NERD with this one!
ReplyDeleteIs that why I stopped calling? I was wondering what happened. Well as long as you are having fun.
ReplyDeleteLove this. I tried 897 and 37, and yes, they worked!
ReplyDeleteSorry I have firefox but I will try later in IE
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