Visualizing the Impossibility of Collatz Cycles: An Empirical Analysis
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I tried to model the Collatz map as a physical system (Gravity vs. Pressure) to explain why cycles are probabilistic impossibilities. The slope of 2.60 in the data was a fun confirmation of the entropy.
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