Busy Beaver BB(6)
Some 6-state machines behave like Collatz-type iterations, so deciding them may require solving problems that mathematics has not solved. It is a clean, checkable target where every step of progress is a certificate.
Related problems
- The original curation links this problem to Collatz conjecture; the argument for the link has not been written yet.
Sources
Relations
- related to Collatz conjecture open
The original curation links this problem to Collatz conjecture; the argument for the link has not been written yet.
Relations to this page
- related to Busy Beaver BB(5) solved · V3
The original curation links this problem to Busy Beaver BB(6); the argument for the link has not been written yet.
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