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A166549 The number of halving steps of the Collatz 3x+1 map to reach 1 starting from 2n-1. 4

%I #26 Apr 22 2022 09:06:19

%S 0,5,4,11,13,10,7,12,9,14,6,11,16,70,13,67,18,10,15,23,69,20,12,66,17,

%T 17,9,71,22,22,14,68,19,19,11,65,73,11,16,24,16,70,8,21,21,59,13,67,

%U 75,18,18,56,26,64,72,45,10,23,15,23,61,31,69,31,77,20,20,28,58,28,12,66,74,74,17

%N The number of halving steps of the Collatz 3x+1 map to reach 1 starting from 2n-1.

%C A given term k appears A131450(k) times. - _Flávio V. Fernandes_, Mar 13 2022

%H Alois P. Heinz, <a href="/A166549/b166549.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000</a>

%H <a href="/index/3#3x1">Index to sequences related to the 3x+1 problem</a>

%F a(n) = A006577(2n-1) - A075680(n).

%p A006370 := proc(n) if type(n,'even') then n/2; else 3*n+1 ; end if; end proc:

%p A006577 := proc(n) a := 0 ; x := n ; while x > 1 do x := A006370(x) ; a := a+1 ; end do; a ; end proc:

%p A006667 := proc(n) a := 0 ; x := n ; while x > 1 do if type(x,'even') then x := x/2 ; else x := 3*x+1 ; a := a+1 ; end if; end do; a ; end proc:

%p A075680 := proc(n) A006667(2*n-1) ; end proc:

%p A166549 := proc(n) A006577(2*n-1)-A075680(n) ; end: seq(A166549(n),n=1..120) ; # _R. J. Mathar_, Oct 18 2009

%p # second Maple program:

%p b:= proc(n) option remember; `if`(n=1, 0,

%p 1+b(`if`(n::even, n/2, (3*n+1)/2)))

%p end:

%p a:= n-> b(2*n-1):

%p seq(a(n), n=1..75); # _Alois P. Heinz_, Mar 14 2022

%t b[n_] := b[n] = If[n == 1, 0, 1 + b[If[EvenQ[n], n/2, (3n+1)/2]]];

%t a[n_] := b[2n-1];

%t Table[a[n], {n, 1, 75}] (* _Jean-François Alcover_, Apr 22 2022, after _Alois P. Heinz_ *)

%Y Cf. A131450, A006577, A075680.

%K nonn

%O 1,2

%A _Jimin Park_, Oct 16 2009

%E Edited and extended by _R. J. Mathar_, Oct 18 2009

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