From: Luke Ivers <technodolt@...>
Date: 2007-02-10T06:10:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] One-Liners (#113)

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> * Given a wondrous number Integer, produce the sequence (in an Array).  A
> wondrous number is a number that eventually reaches one, if you apply the
> following rules to build a sequence from it.  If the current number in the
> sequence is even, the next number is that number divided by two.  When the
> current number is odd, multiply that number by three and add one to get
> the next
> number in the sequence.  Therefore, if we start with the wondrous number
> 15, the
> sequence is [15, 46, 23, 70, 35, 106, 53, 160, 80, 40, 20, 10, 5, 16, 8,
> 4, 2,
> 1].
>
>
One final question: you say "given a wondrous number"... does this mean that
the input is guaranteed to be wondrous, and we therefore don't need to check
it, or does the solution need to include a check to make sure that it is
indeed a wondrous number?

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