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Author Topic: Puzzle  (Read 12788 times)

rthurber

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Puzzle
« on: August 21, 2013, 09:53:25 PM »
Prove that the following program always terminates for any positive integer

sub doIterminate($count) {

$num = int($count);
   while($num != 1) {
      if(($num%2) == 0) {
         $num = $num/2;
      } else {
         $num = 3 * $num + 1;
      }
   }

}

 

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