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This is our repo for the hailstone project, a UC Berkeley mathematics and data science lab.
We worked as a lab to create a dataset to understand and work with the Collatz Conjecture. Specifically we:
- Completed a full dataset of the first 500 numbers to track the odd numbers present in the Collatz Conjecture.
- Defined a new term of numbers in the Collatz Conjecture called trigger numbers.
- Defined a backtracking algorithm to move to each trigger number present in the Collatz Conjecture. It is our hope that this data and the code/algorithms we present can be used to potentialy solve the Collatz Conjecture or gain additional insights into various numbers.
We worked on this project for two years and had the following people who contributed and/or were authors in this project:
- Alexander Paulin
- Branden Saenz
- Jatin Batta
- Benjamin Pierias
- Cailee Argudo
- Heath Matthews
- Henry Qi
- Wen Cao
- Pooneh Zehtabfard
- Brian Chu
- Ashley Kim
- Hanjo Kim
- Madeline Kester
- Riddhi Patel
- Shraya Pal
- Adam Selivanov
- Bingbing Ma
- Christina Yao
- Christopher Ortiz Arias
- Claudia Holland
- Eduardo Hinojosa
- Grace Liu
- Heroda Abera
- Iris Lee
- Jenny Mendez
- Mohammed Al Rashid
- Rodrigo Blanco Arce
- Sai Kolasani
- Sebastian Quiroz
- Victor Cruz Ramos