It should be now possible to close/vote to close bountied questions. We followed the proposal to make the bounties an orthogonal feature. A bountied question can be closed & reopened. The bounty will stay open until its scheduled end or until closed.
Im doing some work on the original Collatz 3n+1 and applied the results to 5n+1. The results suggests that the largest integer that can repeat in 5n+1 is 42.67. I checked and 43 repeats. The calculation has a lot of approximations so I accepted the error.
I would like to know which other integers...
Can we get this question of mine deleted? The question is not anything special, I’ve now thought better of it. Further, the answer to the question is completely incorrect and still upvoted somehow. math.stackexchange.com/questions/4719770/…
So the Riemann hypothesis proposed a way to explain how prime numbers are distributed on the number line. Is this distribution affected by the number systems base? Or could there be a different statistical distribution (if present) depending on the base? Wondering if number theory takes this iss...