collatz

A program to test the collatz conjecture¹ in ocatve. This script computes various data related to the collatz conjecture, presenting them is suitable graphs

How to Use

To use the script you have to set some variables in the main file test_seq.m. Primarily the num variable. (Don't forget the semi-colen at the end of a line :)).

num = 500;

There are three other variables that control the behaviour of the program. The first one is single_run_flag:

single_run_flag = 0;

When you set this value to 0, the program runs for every collatz series between 1 to num. We can contol the plot with plot_collatz_data.

plot_collatz_data = 0;

When this is set to zero, only the stop time data is plotted. Otherwise when this is set to 1, every series between 1 and num is plotted in a seperate plot window.

When we set single_run_flag = 1 only one iteration of the collatz series is performed, and the series data is plotted.

Examples

single_run_flag = 1, for num = 27; :

single_run_flag = 0 (with plot_collatz_data = 0), for num = 5000; :

Footnotes

1. Collatz Conjecture ↩