Research Article

The Collatz Problem in the Light of an Infinite Free Semigroup

Table 5

Target cycles for 8 million start numbers under the rule. There are 1 million odd start numbers covered by each row.

Start numbersEnding in target cycle
FromTo

10000000000011000001999999153678489672356650
10000020000011000003999999159628359741480631
10000040000011000005999999170029223179606792
10000060000011000007999999109324449753440923

10000080000011000009999999140250276963582787
10000100000011000011999999233132247190519678
10000120000011000013999999519287142175338538
10000140000011000015999999416246192398391356

: trivial cycle;   : simple cycle;   : amazing cycle.