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📉 Terence Tao bravely attempts to tame the chaotic beast that is the Collatz conjecture, only to declare them "almost" conquered. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left wondering if this math prodigy just explained something or if he’s just flexing his alphabet soup of algebraic wizardry. 🤯🌀
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Terence Tao: Almost all Collatz orbits attain almost bounded values – MathVideos.org

Define the Collatz map Col on the natural numbers by setting Col(n) to equal 3n+1 when n is odd and n/2 when n is even. The notorious Collatz conjecture asserts that all orbits of this map eventually attain the value 1. This remains open, even if one is willing to work with almost all orbits…