The Pure Numbers Generated by the Collatz Sequence
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The Collatz Conjecture has been vexing mathematicians for over seventy years. It is the only mathematics problem that is comprehensible to a fourth-grader, yet has caused Paul Erdos to say, “Mathematics is not yet ready for such a problem.” This paper divides the integers into “pure” and “impure” numbers, where the “impure” numbers occur in the trajectories of smaller numbers. It develops an infinite set of theorems characterizing the “impure” numbers, and establishes bounds on their density in the integers.
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