New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-letter genetic code

Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by darkmighty on Monday January 30, 2017 @12:13AM (#13518867)

What about the following?

  x=5
  y=5
  while True:
    if y%2 == 0:
      y=y/2
    else:
      y=3y+1
    if y == 1:
      x=x+1
      y=x
    if y==x:
      return x

Please predict the code. I'll even give you $500 in memory of some guy named Erdos if you get it right (and I haven't even gone for a provably undecidable example! :) )

PS: Don't waste time checking x values less than 1000000000000000000

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Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by Retric on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:43AM (#13522046)

In theory this will eventually overflow even with pythons Arbitrary precision due to the machines finite memory. Though for practical cases it's going to run until the machine encounters an error.

If your asking the underlying math problem, yes that is true for all positive integers. It's much more obvious in base 3.

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Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by darkmighty on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:00PM (#13538120)

Sorry, I probably failed at writing a simple Collatz conjecture search (it should halt if Collatz is false).

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

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Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by jcoffland on Monday January 30, 2017 @04:17AM (#13519621)

It will run in a loop until someone turns it off. How do you want to pay up? I accept cash and Bitcoin.

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