Collatz.

Rose: Research.

Rose: My research this Summer will be around variants of the Collatz conjecture.

Rose: I figured I'd first try to better understand the regular Collatz before getting to the variants.

Rose: Anyways, there's certianly some patterns, but…

Rose: … it is a hard problem.

Rose: Check out OEIS A006577, why don't you?

Rose: It's how many steps it takes to get to one.

Rose: The scatterplot looks really nice in my opinion, and it seems very pattern-y.

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