Dark Bit Factory & Gravity

GENERAL => General chat => Topic started by: rdc on October 20, 2009

Title: Collatz Conjecture
Post by: rdc on October 20, 2009

Saw this on another forum:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture

I find it interesting that for such a simple mechanic, the mathematicians haven't been able to come up a proof for this yet. That is, whether all numbers will eventually reach 1.

Title: Re: Collatz Conjecture
Post by: Rbz on October 20, 2009

Very interesting indeed, thanks for this link  :)

Title: Re: Collatz Conjecture
Post by: rain_storm on October 22, 2009

Nowhere near as difficult a problem as the Reimann Hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis) which is still on
Hilberts list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems) of problems in mathematics. No one expects this one to be disproved either since it holds true in all cases tested so far.

Title: Re: Collatz Conjecture
Post by: Voltage on October 22, 2009

Quote from: rain_storm on October 22, 2009

Nowhere near as difficult a problem as the Reimann Hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis) which is still on
Hilberts list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_problems) of problems in mathematics. No one expects this one to be disproved either since it holds true in all cases tested so far.

That was not an easy read.  I think I lost IQ points during that reading.

Title: Re: Collatz Conjecture
Post by: Merick on October 24, 2009

um.. 1+1=3?