Iterating On Real or Complex Numbers
The Collatz map can be viewed as the restriction to the integers of the smooth real and complex map
which simplifies to
If the standard Collatz map defined above is optimized by replacing the relation 3n + 1 with the common substitute "shortcut" relation (3n + 1)/2, it can be viewed as the restriction to the integers of the smooth real and complex map
which simplifies to .
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