About the Collatz conjecture

The answer to your question is yes; one can work the Collatz relation backwards to build numbers that last arbitrarily long (for a simple example, just take powers of 2). However the purpose of the wikipedia records is to see if we can find SMALL numbers that last a long time.

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Number Theory

Collatz Conjecture

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