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

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Hariprasad Baburajan on 25 Dec 2018

Nice one

Zoltán Nagy on 26 Apr 2019

Good problem!

Mark McBroom on 10 Jan 2021

good.

Rik on 13 Jan 2021

If you want to add more tests: https://oeis.org/A006884 and https://oeis.org/A006885 contain the relevant sequences.

Tanzil Parvez (Emon) on 3 May 2021

Why the leading solution size is 0 ? Is it for everyone or just me

goc3 on 3 May 2021

@Tanzil Parvez (Emon): the hack solutions (hopefully all) have been deleted from this 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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Ted on 4 Oct 2013

wrong, corrected in soln 329062

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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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