Too Simple to Solve
A Visual Exploration of the Data of the Collatz Conjecture
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7 min readApr 19, 2022
There is a maths problem that is so simple even a first-grader can understand it, but so complicated that the world’s greatest mathematicians have warned others away from it.
It starts like this. Pick a number. If it’s even, divide it by 2. If it’s odd, multiply it by 3 and add 1. Repeat with the new…