User talk:Bobthesmartypants

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Introduction

Hello, I am bobthesmartypants. This is my ever-expanding problem set that I made up completely, and am contwinuing to make up. Please refrain from editing the problems page, but if you have an alternate solution to a problem or disagree with a solution, feel free to post it in the solutions page (but make sure to use proper $\LaTeX$ and formatting, though, and insert your username in your solution to get some credit). Hope you have fun solving these problems!

Bobthesmartypants's problem set

User talk:Bobthesmartypants/Problems

Problem #1: Take any natural number $n$ and divide it by $2$ if it is even or multiply it by $3$ and add $1$ to it if it is odd. Prove that no matter what $n$ you start with, you will always end up at $1$.

User talk:Bobthesmartypants/Solutions

Solution to #1:

Hello,

the result is very ugly

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