# Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences! http://oeis.org/ Search: id:a226631 Showing 1-1 of 1 %I A226631 #7 Jun 15 2013 01:36:08 %S A226631 1,4,6,17,19,34,12,9,5,22,12,17,17,69,7,18,22,38,11,12,6,68,44,30,9, %T A226631 19,68,14,22,44,23,30,84,8,17,17,30,12,68,18,7,22,15,22,85,10,14,22, %U A226631 22,10,14,18,44,12,68,22,9,38,17,14,55,8,56,50,36,44,25,37 %N A226631 Length of the shortest primitive cycle(s) of positive integers under iteration by the 3x-k function, where k=A226630(n). %C A226631 A cycle is called primitive if its elements are not a common multiple of the elements of another cycle. %C A226631 The 3x-k function T_k is defined by T_k(x) = x/2 if x is even, (3x-k)/2 if x is odd. %H A226631 Geoffrey H. Morley, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..600 %F A226631 a(n) = min_{j=A226628(n) to A226628(n+1)-1} A226625(j). %K A226631 nonn %O A226631 1,2 %A A226631 _Geoffrey H. Morley_, Jun 14 2013 # Content is available under The OEIS End-User License Agreement: http://oeis.org/LICENSE