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Re:Collatz's Ant by wcerfgba on Monday December 23, 2024 @07:48AM (#42494024)
Exactly, so I'm wondering if it's possible to detect those smaller patterns in the bigger ones?
Re:Collatz's Ant by Fibra on Monday December 23, 2024 @11:52AM (#42495753)
I'm not sure. I'll explore it a bit. Feel free to fork it and explore it yourself!
Re:Collatz's Ant by johngossman on Monday December 23, 2024 @04:33PM (#42497789)
Warning: huge amounts of compute time have been spent trying to find a counter example to this conjecture, which almost everyone believes is true. I kept my office warm this way one winter. It has been described as a way to turn pure Platonic mathematics into heat.

Always interesting to try to visualize something though.

Ps -- I implemented hashlife one time. Still amazed someone came up with that algorithm