I've been looking at that particular rabbit hole since a professor of mine mentioned it in 2003 or something. Once or twice a year, I'll read about some theorem or something and think it can be applied to Collatz somehow and dive back in.
I've actually proved it several times...except for the insignificant detail that I glossed over that didn't seem important but tanks the proof.
Someday I'll have to publish my "book of lemmas that don't prove the collatz conjecture."
I've actually proved it several times...except for the insignificant detail that I glossed over that didn't seem important but tanks the proof.
Someday I'll have to publish my "book of lemmas that don't prove the collatz conjecture."