RE: NestWhile
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- Subject: [mg32587] RE: [mg32519] NestWhile
- From: "Higinio Ramos" <higra at usal.es>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 03:19:06 -0500 (EST)
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- Reply-to: "Higinio Ramos" <higra at usal.es>
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----- Original Message ----- From: Tom De Vries <tdevries at shop.westworld.ca> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg32587] [mg32519] NestWhile > Hello! > > I know this is a simple question, hope someone can help me out..... > > If I define the function > > f[n_] := If[EvenQ[n], n/2, 3n + 1] > > > I can then apply NestList and generate a nice number loop...... > > NestList[f, 7, 23] > > I want to use NestWhileList and stop when the generated number is a 1. How > do I do that? > > Thanks for the help, > > Sincerely, > > Tom De Vries > > The Collatz sequence until it stop in 1 may be generated by NestWhileList[f, 450, ! (#1 == 1) &] Higinio
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- From: Tom De Vries <tdevries@shop.westworld.ca>
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