Re: NestWhile
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- Subject: [mg32542] Re: NestWhile
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 04:08:03 -0500 (EST)
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Tom,
NestWhileList[f,7,(#!=1&)]
{7,22,11,34,17,52,26,13,40,20,10,5,16,8,4,2,1}
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"Tom De Vries" <tdevries at shop.westworld.ca> wrote in message
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> 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]
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> I want to use NestWhileList and stop when the generated number is a 1.
How
> do I do that?
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> Thanks for the help,
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Tom De Vries
>
>