• very_well_lost@lemmy.world
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    Is this one of those problems that looks trivially easy to solve but has actually been an open problem in math for centuries and drives all who attempt it to inevitable madness?

    Getting a real “Collatz” vibe from this

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      There is a solution. It’s just 80 digits long. I added it to the OP in the spoiler.

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        Rad! Are there solutions for all numbers, I wonder? Or just 4?

        ETA: I found at least one solution that works for 2. (1, 1, 3)

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      Have you tried 36875131794129999827197811565225474825492979968971970996283137471637224634055579, 154476802108746166441951315019919837485664325669565431700026634898253202035277999, 4373612677928697257861252602371390152816537558161613618621437993378423467772036?