import PIL, math #Problem 14 Longest Collatz sequence #Note, a little slow, takes about 15 seconds. #There is probably a more efficient solution out there chain = [] biggo = [] def collatz(seed): chain.append(seed) if(seed == 1): return 0 if(seed%2 == 0): seed = seed/2 else: seed = 3*seed +1 collatz(seed) for n in range(1,pow(10,6)): collatz(n) if(len(chain)>len(biggo)): biggo = chain chain = [] print(biggo) print("Has " + str(len(biggo)) +" numbers.")