Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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438104 | Theoretical Computer Science | 2008 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The paper introduces a simple way to show that certain iterative, number theoretic problems are undecidable. As applications, variants of the Collatz’s conjecture and the so-called Collatz’s original problem are shown to be undecidable.
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