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TOKYO, July 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --
- Highest Prize for Any Unsolved Problem in Mathematics -
Bakuage Co., Ltd. headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, announced on July 7, 2021, that it is offering a prize of 120 million Japanese yen (*) to anyone who has revealed the truth of the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved mathematical problem.
(*) 120 million Japanese yen is about US$1,085,000 (1US$=JPY110.50 as of June 29, 2021).
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- What is Collatz conjecture?
The Collatz conjecture is one of unsolved problems in mathematics. It is a conjecture that repeatedly applying the following sequences will eventually result in 1: starting with any positive integer, divide it by 2 in the case of an even number and multiply it by 3 and add 1 in the case of any odd number. The conjecture is named after Lothar Collatz, who introduced the idea in 1937. Since then, it has remained unsolved with its truth not yet verified.
Background of prize
Prize money is sometimes offered on an unsolved problem in mathematics. For example, a prize of $1 million was posted for the solution to each of seven unsolved millennium problems announced by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. Bakuage decided on the latest prize, hoping to contribute to the development of mathematics. The company has chosen the Collatz conjecture because it thought many people can be easily interested in the problem, which itself is easy to understand.
Prize rules
A prize of 120 million Japanese yen will be paid to whoever has elucidated the truth of the Collatz conjecture. For details, please visit the following prize site. Prize site: https://mathprize.net/posts/collatz-conjecture/
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*If the contents of this press release and the abovementioned prize rules do not agree with each other, the prize rules mentioned on the prize site shall take precedence.
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Run the problem by me again...?
Please send prize to...(Jim knows my bank account)
TIA
Check this => https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5mFpVDpKX70
It makes no sense. It’s like someone didn’t explain the whole procedure.
Anyone can take an even number and divide by 2 or an odd number and divide by 3 and add 1.
So then what?
It’s an algorithm that you repeatedly apply.
If the number is even then divide by 2
else if the number is odd then multiply by 3 and add 1
Repeat until the number is 1
The conjecture is that this will always result in 1 eventually, but it has not been explained why or if that is actually true.
Amazing.
I just watched a youtube where some guy was late to his college math class, copied the problems on the board, thinking they vwere homework, spent several days solving them, turned the answers in, then the professor revealed he had solved two problems like this one. He said if he had known they were unsolvable (stated at beginning of class he missed) , he probably would have had a mental block and not solved them.
42 squared
Maybe it turns into a moebius strip somewhere?
Times 3 + 1 will eventually deliver an even number. From there, divide by two repeatedly until you get to 1.
example: pick a number, like 42
42 / 2 = 21
21 * 3 + 1 = 64
64 / 2 = 32
/ 2 = 16
/ 2 = 8
/ 2 = 4
/ 2 = 2
/ 2 = 1
It says, whatever number you pick, you will arrive at 1
N+1, what do i win?
Thanks for that explanation!
But I still don’t get what the issue is here.
You will always end up at 1 because of math, and it is true because it’s math.
I not sure I even understand what I just said...
The problem is that the numbers can go up and go down.
To prove that the conjecture is not true is to find a number that as you do the sequence, the sequence return to the original number. That would be an infinite loop, as it would never go to zero, but constantly repeat the pattern. In addition, every number in this sequence would not lead to 1.
Hmm, wonder if it’s flawed? Why would a million dollar reward be announced last month when Sultan published his “proof” in 2017?
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