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I'd do it out of scientific curiosity. (feddit.org)

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

2n+1 is not in the Collatz conjecture.

Mathematics is not ready for such carelessness.

And I did a dumb. Withdrawn.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wouldn't that be 3n + 1? n passengers already present, another 2n + 1 enter, resulting in a total of 3n + 1. Doing it in my head, we seem to always end up in a cycle of 4 -> 2 -> 1 -> 4. All of these are < 5, so once we enter that cycle, the number of possible passengers killed is always less than five.