Anyone remember when I was writing articles about the 3X+1 math problem? And then I wrote about it some more? And even more?

Apparently, I had planned to write about it even more than that. I found this unpublished source code. Writing a version in Color BASIC wasn’t enough. Apparently I tried writing it in C#, too:

// 3X+1

using System;
					
public class Program
{
	public static void Main()
	{
		while (true)
		{
			Int32 x = 0;

			Console.WriteLine();
			Console.WriteLine("Enter number:");

			x = Int32.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
			
			while (true)
			{
				Console.Write(x);
				Console.Write(" ");
				
				if (x == 1) break;
				
				if ((x & 1) == 1) // Odd
				{
					x = x * 3 + 1;
				}
				else // Even
				{
					x = x / 2;
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

So, if you’re in to that kind of thing (C# is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux), you can give that a try and tell me how I should have written it.

Until next time…