Assignemnt #76

Code

/// Name: Ryan Volko
/// Period: 7
/// Program Name: Collatz
/// File Name: Collatz.java
/// Date Finished: 2/16/2015

import java.util.Random;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Collatz
{
	public static void main( String[] args )
	{
		Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
        Random r = new Random();
        
        int x, z;
        z = 0;
        System.out.print("Starting number: ");
       x = keyboard.nextInt();
       
       while (x != 1)
       {
       if ( x % 2 == 0)
       {
       x = x / 2;
       System.out.print( x + "    ");
       }
       else if (x % 2 == 1)
       {
       x = 3*x+1;
       System.out.print(x+ "    ");
       }
       z++;
        }
        System.out.println("");
        System.out.println("Finished after " + z + " steps");
        }
        }

    
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