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A075484

Length of iteration-list when Collatz-function(A006370) is iterated with initial value 5^n.

1, 6, 24, 109, 26, 124, 147, 139, 100, 92, 115, 337, 135, 277, 181, 261, 240, 219, 286, 322, 451, 337, 303, 432, 243, 540, 408, 444, 304, 464, 438, 554, 484, 582, 517, 677, 462, 617, 1002, 539, 655, 709, 714, 737, 623, 708, 868, 723, 707, 676, 642, 833, 776

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OFFSET

0,2

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000

FORMULA

a(n) = A008908(5^n).

EXAMPLE

n=2: 5^n=25, list={25, 76, 38, 19, 58, 29, 88, 44, 22, 11, 34, 17, 52, 26, 13, 40, 20, 10.5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1}, a(2)=24.

MATHEMATICA

Table[Length[NestWhileList[If[EvenQ@ #, #/2, 3 # + 1] &, 5^n, # != 1 &]], {n, 0, 52}] (* Michael De Vlieger, Feb 25 2017 *)

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