Problem 69. Find the peak 3n+1 sequence value

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A Collatz sequence is the sequence where, for a given number n, the next number in the sequence is either n/2 if the number is even or 3n+1 if the number is odd. See Problem 21 for more information.

Let c(n) be the sequence for n, and p(n) be the peak value of that sequence. For a given threshold nmax, find the highest peak value max(p(n)) for all Collatz sequences starting with integers between 1 and nmax.

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Hariprasad Baburajan on 25 Dec 2018

Nice one

Zoltán Nagy on 26 Apr 2019

Good problem!

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A C on 3 Jan 2019

How would I speed this up?
If I input nmax = 2^60, my program cannot finish.

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yurenchu on 25 Dec 2016

This solution will fail for nmax = 2; so I had to swap the order of two lines. See Solution 1088355.

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Wycliff Dembe on 20 Sep 2018

i'm totally lost with this!

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Ted on 4 Oct 2013

wrong, corrected in soln 329062

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Evan on 25 Jun 2013

I only feel justified in doing this because the previous best answer was a look-up table. :P

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Peter Wittenberg on 28 Mar 2012

Clever pattern, but still gaming the system. This is not the absolute highest Collatz peak as you go to infinity. Yuval, you should be ashamed of submitting this without apologies.

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Jed F. on 30 Jan 2012

This really doesn't solve the problem it's just gaming the results.

Kevin Holst on 14 Feb 2012

Boo.

Jean-Yves Tinevez on 17 Feb 2012

Ooooooh this is evil.

Peter Wittenberg on 28 Mar 2012

Pathetic

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