Carla Wilson-484785 (10/3/2011)
With regards to your discussion of the iterative process of building the code, one step I didn't see was how to stop the infinite loop if the Collatz Conjecture does NOT reach the value of 1! In the generic sense, this would be the error-catching phase of the development of the code.
yep fair point carla. i don't tend to put in error catching when building a prototype unless i am struggling with the prototype itself. when it comes time to rework/rebuild/productionise it then yes, error trapping is crucial.
as it regards to this particular problem - do you have something in mind for stopping the infinite loop?