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  1. 10-02-2013 08:01 AM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by abelardx View Post
    It sounds like the Collatz conjecture.
    Hm I'm surprised that this hasn't been proven yet. We should be able to prove that..
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    Quote Originally Posted by jackvance View Post
    Hm I'm surprised that this hasn't been proven yet. We should be able to prove that..
    why?
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    OK I figured it out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ImSavy View Post
    why?
    Because it seems so intuitively easy. Basically "keep multiplying a number by three and adding one and eventually you'll get a multiple of 2". Idk something with our knowledge of primes should fit in here somewhere. (that said clearly it isn't that easy or it would be solved but it just feels.. solvable)
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  5. 10-02-2013 12:44 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by jackvance View Post
    Because it seems so intuitively easy. Basically "keep multiplying a number by three and adding one and eventually you'll get a multiple of 2". Idk something with our knowledge of primes should fit in here somewhere. (that said clearly it isn't that easy or it would be solved but it just feels.. solvable)
    People said the exact same thing about Fermat's Last Theorem though. Just because something can be stated in seemingly simple language doesn't imply that it can be solved with the same simplicity.
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