Need some help with my code, if you're able.

Hey everyone, I've been working hard on this, and I don't know if I'm making progress. How do I get the number, (i) to go through the corresponding formula and THEN returning with the next number (i+1).
If you know, Please help me out a bit.

Also, if know how - how to determine the maximum number of interations, and the number that generated it.

public class Collatz
{
public static void main(String [] args)
{
for (int count =1; count <= 65535; count++)
{

for (int i = 1; i <=65535; i++)
{
if( i% 2 == 0)
{
i = i / 2;
}
else
{
i = 3 * i + 1;
}

System.out.println(i);
}

}

}
}


Thank you so much.

 

Can you elaborate what problem are you try to solve ?
You are going in an infinite loop possibly.

 

Yep, I noticed I was trying to answer your question in the other thread, and I gave this infinite loop, too (can't check the code atm, just going off the top of my head). I think this would stop the infinite loop, but I'm still unsure the question 100%.

public class Collatz
{
public static void main(String [] args)
{
for (int count =1; count <= 65535; count++)
{

for (int i = 1; i <=65535; i++)
{
temp_i = i;
if( temp_i% 2 == 0)
{
temp_i = temp_i / 2;
}
else
{
temp_i = 3 * temp_i + 1;
}

System.out.println(temp_i);
}

}

}
}

 

Now those two bits of code do very different things.

The first is a nested loop of 64k iterations with each iteration going into a loop that runs about 10 times since I is never even during the if-else statement. so About 640K iterations total

The second is a nested loop that does 64K iterations with each iteration doing 64K inner iterations. A total of about 4 billion iterations.

Did you want to use that count variable somewhere? What is the codes intention?