Visualizing generalized 3x+1 function dynamics

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 883-898

  Dumont, Jeffrey P ^a   Reiter, Clifford A ^b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collatz problem; Hailstone numbers; Syracuse problem

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

STOPPING TIME IMAGES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0035479672     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-8493(01)00129-7     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. The 3x+1 problem and its generalizations
2. The dynamical systems generated by the 3n+1 function
3. Chaos and fractals
4. A stopping time problem on the positive integers
5. A continuous extension of the 3x+1 problem to the real line