Collatz conjecture returns decimals instead of integer (python)

Asked Feb 08 '18 at 23:04

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Complete rookie. When I run the below it returns decimals. How do I get this to return whole number?

n = 17

while n != 1:         
    if (n % 2 == 0):  
        n = n/2          
        print(int(n))
    else:             
        n = (3*n)+1
        print(int(n))

Result:

py> python cold.py
52
26.0
13.0
40.0
20.0
10.0
5.0
16.0
8.0
4.0
2.0
1.0

edited Feb 09 '18 at 00:14

Brett Beatty

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asked Feb 08 '18 at 23:04

user9334357

Even with the calls to `int` it still returns decimals? – Brett Beatty Feb 08 '18 at 23:15
In case you don't want to look at the duplicate, in Python 3, int/int returns a float, int//int does integer division. – Sam Craig Feb 09 '18 at 00:03

Collatz conjecture returns decimals instead of integer (python)

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