Show HN: Collatz Lottery

2 labarilem 4 8/18/2025, 9:40:01 PM collatz-lottery.vercel.app ↗

Comments (4)

skybog · 5d ago

Seems to jackpot frequently

southwindcg · 4d ago

Yeah, I think that just means you've selected a number that requires more iterations to reach 1. (This site seems tongue-in-cheek.)

labarilem · 4d ago

Yes that might be the cause. Maybe I need to increase the upper limit on iterations? I haven't tested it a lot with the bigger numbers since I've entirely coded this from my smartphone and it's quite slow at processing those numbers.

southwindcg · 3d ago

I think the problem might be too low a lower limit on iterations. Perhaps it should default to 5000 or something larger, maybe with a progress indicator.