Code Golf: Collatz Conjecture - language-agnostic

Question

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Inspired by http://xkcd.com/710/ here is a code golf for it.
The Challenge
Given a positive integer greater than 0, print out the hailstone sequence for that number.
The Hailstone Sequence
See Wikipedia for more detail..
If the number is even, divide it by two.
If the number is odd, triple it and add one.
Repeat this with the number produced until it reaches 1. (if it continues after 1, it will go in an infinite loop of 1 -> 4 -> 2 -> 1...)
Sometimes code is the best way to explain, so here is some from Wikipedia
function collatz(n)
show n
if n > 1
if n is odd
call collatz(3n + 1)
else
call collatz(n / 2)
This code works, but I am adding on an extra challenge. The program must not be vulnerable to stack overflows. So it must either use iteration or tail recursion.
Also, bonus points for if it can calculate big numbers and the language does not already have it implemented. (or if you reimplement big number support using fixed-length integers)
Test case
Number: 21
Results: 21 -> 64 -> 32 -> 16 -> 8 -> 4 -> 2 -> 1
Number: 3
Results: 3 -> 10 -> 5 -> 16 -> 8 -> 4 -> 2 -> 1
Also, the code golf must include full user input and output.

Answer 1

x86 assembly, 1337 characters
;
; To assemble and link this program, just run:
;
; >> $ nasm -f elf collatz.asm && gcc -o collatz collatz.o
;
; You can then enjoy its output by passing a number to it on the command line:
;
; >> $ ./collatz 123
; >> 123 --> 370 --> 185 --> 556 --> 278 --> 139 --> 418 --> 209 --> 628 --> 314
; >> --> 157 --> 472 --> 236 --> 118 --> 59 --> 178 --> 89 --> 268 --> 134 --> 67
; >> --> 202 --> 101 --> 304 --> 152 --> 76 --> 38 --> 19 --> 58 --> 29 --> 88
; >> --> 44 --> 22 --> 11 --> 34 --> 17 --> 52 --> 26 --> 13 --> 40 --> 20 --> 10
; >> --> 5 --> 16 --> 8 --> 4 --> 2 --> 1
;
; There's even some error checking involved:
; >> $ ./collatz
; >> Usage: ./collatz NUMBER
;
section .text
global main
extern printf
extern atoi
main:
cmp dword [esp+0x04], 2
jne .usage
mov ebx, [esp+0x08]
push dword [ebx+0x04]
call atoi
add esp, 4
cmp eax, 0
je .usage
mov ebx, eax
push eax
push msg
.loop:
mov [esp+0x04], ebx
call printf
test ebx, 0x01
jz .even
.odd:
lea ebx, [1+ebx*2+ebx]
jmp .loop
.even:
shr ebx, 1
cmp ebx, 1
jne .loop
push ebx
push end
call printf
add esp, 16
xor eax, eax
ret
.usage:
mov ebx, [esp+0x08]
push dword [ebx+0x00]
push usage
call printf
add esp, 8
mov eax, 1
ret
msg db "%d --> ", 0
end db "%d", 10, 0
usage db "Usage: %s NUMBER", 10, 0

Answer 2

Befunge
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>3*^ #
|%2: <
v>2/>+

Answer 3

LOLCODE: 406 CHARAKTERZ
HAI
BTW COLLATZ SOUNDZ JUS LULZ
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A NUMBAR
BTW, I WANTS UR NUMBAR
GIMMEH NUMBAR
VISIBLE NUMBAR
IM IN YR SEQUENZ
MOD OF NUMBAR AN 2
BOTH SAEM IT AN 0, O RLY?
YA RLY, NUMBAR R QUOSHUNT OF NUMBAR AN 2
NO WAI, NUMBAR R SUM OF PRODUKT OF NUMBAR AN 3 AN 1
OIC
VISIBLE NUMBAR
DIFFRINT 2 AN SMALLR OF 2 AN NUMBAR, O RLY?
YA RLY, GTFO
OIC
IM OUTTA YR SEQUENZ
KTHXBYE
TESTD UNDR JUSTIN J. MEZA'S INTERPRETR. KTHXBYE!

Answer 4

Python - 95 64 51 46 char
Obviously does not produce a stack overflow.
n=input()
while n>1:n=(n/2,n*3+1)[n%2];print n

Answer 5

Perl
I decided to be a little anticompetitive, and show how you would normally code such problem in Perl.
There is also a 46 (total) char code-golf entry at the end.
These first three examples all start out with this header.
#! /usr/bin/env perl
use Modern::Perl;
# which is the same as these three lines:
# use 5.10.0;
# use strict;
# use warnings;
while( <> ){
chomp;
last unless $_;
Collatz( $_ );
}
Simple recursive version
use Sub::Call::Recur;
sub Collatz{
my( $n ) = #_;
$n += 0; # ensure that it is numeric
die 'invalid value' unless $n > 0;
die 'Integer values only' unless $n == int $n;
say $n;
given( $n ){
when( 1 ){}
when( $_ % 2 != 0 ){ # odd
recur( 3 * $n + 1 );
}
default{ # even
recur( $n / 2 );
}
}
}
Simple iterative version
sub Collatz{
my( $n ) = #_;
$n += 0; # ensure that it is numeric
die 'invalid value' unless $n > 0;
die 'Integer values only' unless $n == int $n;
say $n;
while( $n > 1 ){
if( $n % 2 ){ # odd
$n = 3 * $n + 1;
} else { #even
$n = $n / 2;
}
say $n;
}
}
Optimized iterative version
sub Collatz{
my( $n ) = #_;
$n += 0; # ensure that it is numeric
die 'invalid value' unless $n > 0;
die 'Integer values only' unless $n == int $n;
#
state #next;
$next[1] //= 0; # sets $next[1] to 0 if it is undefined
#
# fill out #next until we get to a value we've already worked on
until( defined $next[$n] ){
say $n;
#
if( $n % 2 ){ # odd
$next[$n] = 3 * $n + 1;
} else { # even
$next[$n] = $n / 2;
}
#
$n = $next[$n];
}
say $n;
# finish running until we get to 1
say $n while $n = $next[$n];
}
Now I'm going to show how you would do that last example with a version of Perl prior to v5.10.0
#! /usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
while( <> ){
chomp;
last unless $_;
Collatz( $_ );
}
{
my #next = (0,0); # essentially the same as a state variable
sub Collatz{
my( $n ) = #_;
$n += 0; # ensure that it is numeric
die 'invalid value' unless $n > 0;
# fill out #next until we get to a value we've already worked on
until( $n == 1 or defined $next[$n] ){
print $n, "\n";
if( $n % 2 ){ # odd
$next[$n] = 3 * $n + 1;
} else { # even
$next[$n] = $n / 2;
}
$n = $next[$n];
}
print $n, "\n";
# finish running until we get to 1
print $n, "\n" while $n = $next[$n];
}
}
Benchmark
First off the IO is always going to be the slow part. So if you actually benchmarked them as-is you should get about the same speed out of each one.
To test these then, I opened a file handle to /dev/null ($null), and edited every say $n to instead read say {$null} $n. This is to reduce the dependence on IO.
#! /usr/bin/env perl
use Modern::Perl;
use autodie;
open our $null, '>', '/dev/null';
use Benchmark qw':all';
cmpthese( -10,
{
Recursive => sub{ Collatz_r( 31 ) },
Iterative => sub{ Collatz_i( 31 ) },
Optimized => sub{ Collatz_o( 31 ) },
});
sub Collatz_r{
...
say {$null} $n;
...
}
sub Collatz_i{
...
say {$null} $n;
...
}
sub Collatz_o{
...
say {$null} $n;
...
}
After having run it 10 times, here is a representative sample output:
Rate Recursive Iterative Optimized
Recursive 1715/s -- -27% -46%
Iterative 2336/s 36% -- -27%
Optimized 3187/s 86% 36% --
Finally, a real code-golf entry:
perl -nlE'say;say$_=$_%2?3*$_+1:$_/2while$_>1'
46 chars total
If you don't need to print the starting value, you could remove 5 more characters.
perl -nE'say$_=$_%2?3*$_+1:$_/2while$_>1'
41 chars total
31 chars for the actual code portion, but the code won't work without the -n switch. So I include the entire example in my count.

Answer 6

Haskell, 62 chars 63 76 83, 86, 97, 137
c 1=[1]
c n=n:c(div(n`mod`2*(5*n+2)+n)2)
main=readLn>>=print.c
User input, printed output, uses constant memory and stack, works with arbitrarily big integers.
A sample run of this code, given an 80 digit number of all '1's (!) as input, is pretty fun to look at.
Original, function only version:
Haskell 51 chars
f n=n:[[],f([n`div`2,3*n+1]!!(n`mod`2))]!!(1`mod`n)
Who the #&^# needs conditionals, anyway?
(edit: I was being "clever" and used fix. Without it, the code dropped to 54 chars.
edit2: dropped to 51 by factoring out f())

Answer 7

Golfscript : 20 chars
~{(}{3*).1&5*)/}/1+`
#
# Usage: echo 21 | ruby golfscript.rb collatz.gs
This is equivalent to
stack<int> s;
s.push(21);
while (s.top() - 1) {
int x = s.top();
int numerator = x*3+1;
int denominator = (numerator&1) * 5 + 1;
s.push(numerator/denominator);
}
s.push(1);
return s;

Answer 8

bc 41 chars
I guess this kind of problems is what bc was invented for:
for(n=read();n>1;){if(n%2)n=n*6+2;n/=2;n}
Test:
bc1 -q collatz.bc
21
64
32
16
8
4
2
1
Proper code:
for(n=read();n>1;){if(n%2)n=n*3+1else n/=2;print n,"\n"}
bc handles numbers with up to INT_MAX digits
Edit: The Wikipedia article mentions this conjecture has been checked for all values up to 20x258 (aprox. 5.76e18). This program:
c=0;for(n=2^20000+1;n>1;){if(n%2)n=n*6+2;n/=2;c+=1};n;c
tests 220,000+1 (aprox. 3.98e6,020) in 68 seconds, 144,404 cycles.

Answer 9

Perl : 31 chars
perl -nE 'say$_=$_%2?$_*3+1:$_/2while$_>1'
# 123456789 123456789 123456789 1234567
Edited to remove 2 unnecessary spaces.
Edited to remove 1 unnecessary space.

Answer 10

MS Excel, 35 chars
=IF(A1/2=ROUND(A1/2,0),A1/2,A1*3+1)
Taken straight from Wikipedia:
In cell A1, place the starting number.
In cell A2 enter this formula =IF(A1/2=ROUND(A1/2,0),A1/2,A1*3+1)
Drag and copy the formula down until 4, 2, 1
It only took copy/pasting the formula 111 times to get the result for a starting number of 1000. ;)

Answer 11

C : 64 chars
main(x){for(scanf("%d",&x);x>=printf("%d,",x);x=x&1?3*x+1:x/2);}
With big integer support: 431 (necessary) chars
#include <stdlib.h>
#define B (w>=m?d=realloc(d,m=m+m):0)
#define S(a,b)t=a,a=b,b=t
main(m,w,i,t){char*d=malloc(m=9);for(w=0;(i=getchar()+2)/10==5;)
B,d[w++]=i%10;for(i=0;i<w/2;i++)S(d[i],d[w-i-1]);for(;;w++){
while(w&&!d[w-1])w--;for(i=w+1;i--;)putchar(i?d[i-1]+48:10);if(
w==1&&*d==1)break;if(*d&1){for(i=w;i--;)d[i]*=3;*d+=1;}else{
for(i=w;i-->1;)d[i-1]+=d[i]%2*10,d[i]/=2;*d/=2;}B,d[w]=0;for(i=0
;i<w;i++)d[i+1]+=d[i]/10,d[i]%=10;}}
Note: Do not remove #include <stdlib.h> without at least prototyping malloc/realloc, as doing so will not be safe on 64-bit platforms (64-bit void* will be converted to 32-bit int).
This one hasn't been tested vigorously yet. It could use some shortening as well.
Previous versions:
main(x){for(scanf("%d",&x);printf("%d,",x),x-1;x=x&1?3*x+1:x/2);} // 66
(removed 12 chars because no one follows the output format... :| )

Answer 12

Another assembler version. This one is not limited to 32 bit numbers, it can handle numbers up to 1065534 although the ".com" format MS-DOS uses is limited to 80 digit numbers. Written for A86 assembler and requires a Win-XP DOS box to run. Assembles to 180 bytes:
mov ax,cs
mov si,82h
add ah,10h
mov es,ax
mov bh,0
mov bl,byte ptr [80h]
cmp bl,1
jbe ret
dec bl
mov cx,bx
dec bl
xor di,di
p1:lodsb
sub al,'0'
cmp al,10
jae ret
stosb
loop p1
xor bp,bp
push es
pop ds
p2:cmp byte ptr ds:[bp],0
jne p3
inc bp
jmp p2
ret
p3:lea si,[bp-1]
cld
p4:inc si
mov dl,[si]
add dl,'0'
mov ah,2
int 21h
cmp si,bx
jne p4
cmp bx,bp
jne p5
cmp byte ptr [bx],1
je ret
p5:mov dl,'-'
mov ah,2
int 21h
mov dl,'>'
int 21h
test byte ptr [bx],1
jz p10
;odd
mov si,bx
mov di,si
mov dx,3
dec bp
std
p6:lodsb
mul dl
add al,dh
aam
mov dh,ah
stosb
cmp si,bp
jnz p6
or dh,dh
jz p7
mov al,dh
stosb
dec bp
p7:mov si,bx
mov di,si
p8:lodsb
inc al
xor ah,ah
aaa
stosb
or ah,ah
jz p9
cmp si,bp
jne p8
mov al,1
stosb
jmp p2
p9:inc bp
jmp p2
p10:mov si,bp
mov di,bp
xor ax,ax
p11:lodsb
test ah,1
jz p12
add al,10
p12:mov ah,al
shr al,1
cmp di,bx
stosb
jne p11
jmp p2

Answer 13

dc - 24 chars 25 28
dc is a good tool for this sequence:
?[d5*2+d2%*+2/pd1<L]dsLx
dc -f collatz.dc
21
64
32
16
8
4
2
1
Also 24 chars using the formula from the Golfscript entry:
?[3*1+d2%5*1+/pd1<L]dsLx
57 chars to meet the specs:
[Number: ]n?[Results: ]ndn[d5*2+d2%*+2/[ -> ]ndnd1<L]dsLx
dc -f collatz-spec.dc
Number: 3
Results: 3 -> 10 -> 5 -> 16 -> 8 -> 4 -> 2 -> 1

Answer 14

Scheme: 72
(define(c n)(if(= n 1)`(1)(cons n(if(odd? n)(c(+(* n 3)1))(c(/ n 2))))))
This uses recursion, but the calls are tail-recursive so I think they'll be optimized to iteration. In some quick testing, I haven't been able to find a number for which the stack overflows anyway. Just for example:
(c 9876543219999999999000011234567898888777766665555444433332222
7777777777777777777777777777777798797657657651234143375987342987
5398709812374982529830983743297432985230985739287023987532098579
058095873098753098370938753987)
...runs just fine. [that's all one number -- I've just broken it to fit on screen.]

Answer 15

Mathematica, 45 50 chars
c=NestWhileList[If[OddQ##,3#+1,#/2]&,#,#>1&]&

Answer 16

Ruby, 50 chars, no stack overflow
Basically a direct rip of makapuf's Python solution:
def c(n)while n>1;n=n.odd?? n*3+1: n/2;p n end end
Ruby, 45 chars, will overflow
Basically a direct rip of the code provided in the question:
def c(n)p n;n.odd?? c(3*n+1):c(n/2)if n>1 end

Answer 17

import java.math.BigInteger;
public class SortaJava {
static final BigInteger THREE = new BigInteger("3");
static final BigInteger TWO = new BigInteger("2");
interface BiFunc<R, A, B> {
R call(A a, B b);
}
interface Cons<A, B> {
<R> R apply(BiFunc<R, A, B> func);
}
static class Collatz implements Cons<BigInteger, Collatz> {
BigInteger value;
public Collatz(BigInteger value) { this.value = value; }
public <R> R apply(BiFunc<R, BigInteger, Collatz> func) {
if(BigInteger.ONE.equals(value))
return func.call(value, null);
if(value.testBit(0))
return func.call(value, new Collatz((value.multiply(THREE)).add(BigInteger.ONE)));
return func.call(value, new Collatz(value.divide(TWO)));
}
}
static class PrintAReturnB<A, B> implements BiFunc<B, A, B> {
boolean first = true;
public B call(A a, B b) {
if(first)
first = false;
else
System.out.print(" -> ");
System.out.print(a);
return b;
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
BiFunc<Collatz, BigInteger, Collatz> printer = new PrintAReturnB<BigInteger, Collatz>();
Collatz collatz = new Collatz(new BigInteger(args[0]));
while(collatz != null)
collatz = collatz.apply(printer);
}
}

Answer 18

Python 45 Char
Shaved a char off of makapuf's answer.
n=input()
while~-n:n=(n/2,n*3+1)[n%2];print n

Answer 19

TI-BASIC
Not the shortest, but a novel approach. Certain to slow down considerably with large sequences, but it shouldn't overflow.
PROGRAM:COLLATZ
:ClrHome
:Input X
:Lbl 1
:While X≠1
:If X/2=int(X/2)
:Then
:Disp X/2→X
:Else
:Disp X*3+1→X
:End
:Goto 1
:End

Answer 20

Haskell : 50
c 1=[1];c n=n:(c$if odd n then 3*n+1 else n`div`2)

Answer 21

not the shortest, but an elegant clojure solution
(defn collatz [n]
(print n "")
(if (> n 1)
(recur
(if (odd? n)
(inc (* 3 n))
(/ n 2)))))

Answer 22

C#: 216 Characters
using C=System.Console;class P{static void Main(){var p="start:";System.Action<object> o=C.Write;o(p);ulong i;while(ulong.TryParse(C.ReadLine(),out i)){o(i);while(i > 1){i=i%2==0?i/2:i*3+1;o(" -> "+i);}o("\n"+p);}}}
in long form:
using C = System.Console;
class P
{
static void Main()
{
var p = "start:";
System.Action<object> o = C.Write;
o(p);
ulong i;
while (ulong.TryParse(C.ReadLine(), out i))
{
o(i);
while (i > 1)
{
i = i % 2 == 0 ? i / 2 : i * 3 + 1;
o(" -> " + i);
}
o("\n" + p);
}
}
}
New Version, accepts one number as input provided through the command line, no input validation. 173 154 characters.
using System;class P{static void Main(string[]a){Action<object>o=Console.Write;var i=ulong.Parse(a[0]);o(i);while(i>1){i=i%2==0?i/2:i*3+1;o(" -> "+i);}}}
in long form:
using System;
class P
{
static void Main(string[]a)
{
Action<object>o=Console.Write;
var i=ulong.Parse(a[0]);
o(i);
while(i>1)
{
i=i%2==0?i/2:i*3+1;
o(" -> "+i);
}
}
}
I am able to shave a few characters by ripping off the idea in this answer to use a for loop rather than a while. 150 characters.
using System;class P{static void Main(string[]a){Action<object>o=Console.Write;for(var i=ulong.Parse(a[0]);i>1;i=i%2==0?i/2:i*3+1)o(i+" -> ");o(1);}}

Answer 23

Ruby, 43 characters
bignum supported, with stack overflow susceptibility:
def c(n)p n;n%2>0?c(3*n+1):c(n/2)if n>1 end
...and 50 characters, bignum supported, without stack overflow:
def d(n)while n>1 do p n;n=n%2>0?3*n+1:n/2 end end
Kudos to Jordan. I didn't know about 'p' as a replacement for puts.

Answer 24

nroff1
Run with nroff -U hail.g
.warn
.pl 1
.pso (printf "Enter a number: " 1>&2); read x; echo .nr x $x
.while \nx>1 \{\
. ie \nx%2 .nr x \nx*3+1
. el .nr x \nx/2
\nx
.\}
1. groff version

Answer 25

Scala + Scalaz
import scalaz._
import Scalaz._
val collatz =
(_:Int).iterate[Stream](a=>Seq(a/2,3*a+1)(a%2)).takeWhile(1<) // This line: 61 chars
And in action:
scala> collatz(7).toList
res15: List[Int] = List(7, 22, 11, 34, 17, 52, 26, 13, 40, 20, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2)
Scala 2.8
val collatz =
Stream.iterate(_:Int)(a=>Seq(a/2,3*a+1)(a%2)).takeWhile(1<) :+ 1
This also includes the trailing 1.
scala> collatz(7)
res12: scala.collection.immutable.Stream[Int] = Stream(7, 22, 11, 34, 17, 52, 26, 13, 40, 20, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1)
With the following implicit
implicit def intToEven(i:Int) = new {
def ~(even: Int=>Int, odd: Int=>Int) = {
if (i%2==0) { even(i) } else { odd(i) }
}
}
this can be shortened to
val collatz = Stream.iterate(_:Int)(_~(_/2,3*_+1)).takeWhile(1<) :+ 1
Edit - 58 characters (including input and output, but not including initial number)
var n=readInt;while(n>1){n=Seq(n/2,n*3+1)(n%2);println(n)}
Could be reduced by 2 if you don't need newlines...

Answer 26

F#, 90 characters
let c=Seq.unfold(function|n when n<=1->None|n when n%2=0->Some(n,n/2)|n->Some(n,(3*n)+1))
> c 21;;
val it : seq<int> = seq [21; 64; 32; 16; ...]
Or if you're not using F# interactive to display the result, 102 characters:
let c=Seq.unfold(function|n when n<=1->None|n when n%2=0->Some(n,n/2)|n->Some(n,(3*n)+1))>>printf"%A"

Answer 27

Common Lisp, 141 characters:
(defun c ()
(format t"Number: ")
(loop for n = (read) then (if(oddp n)(+ 1 n n n)(/ n 2))
until (= n 1)
do (format t"~d -> "n))
(format t"1~%"))
Test run:
Number: 171
171 -> 514 -> 257 -> 772 -> 386 -> 193 -> 580 -> 290 -> 145 -> 436 ->
218 -> 109 -> 328 -> 164 -> 82 -> 41 -> 124 -> 62 -> 31 -> 94 -> 47 ->
142 -> 71 -> 214 -> 107 -> 322 -> 161 -> 484 -> 242 -> 121 -> 364 ->
182 -> 91 -> 274 -> 137 -> 412 -> 206 -> 103 -> 310 -> 155 -> 466 ->
233 -> 700 -> 350 -> 175 -> 526 -> 263 -> 790 -> 395 -> 1186 -> 593 ->
1780 -> 890 -> 445 -> 1336 -> 668 -> 334 -> 167 -> 502 -> 251 -> 754 ->
377 -> 1132 -> 566 -> 283 -> 850 -> 425 -> 1276 -> 638 -> 319 ->
958 -> 479 -> 1438 -> 719 -> 2158 -> 1079 -> 3238 -> 1619 -> 4858 ->
2429 -> 7288 -> 3644 -> 1822 -> 911 -> 2734 -> 1367 -> 4102 -> 2051 ->
6154 -> 3077 -> 9232 -> 4616 -> 2308 -> 1154 -> 577 -> 1732 -> 866 ->
433 -> 1300 -> 650 -> 325 -> 976 -> 488 -> 244 -> 122 -> 61 -> 184 ->
92 -> 46 -> 23 -> 70 -> 35 -> 106 -> 53 -> 160 -> 80 -> 40 -> 20 ->
10 -> 5 -> 16 -> 8 -> 4 -> 2 -> 1

Answer 28

The program frm Jerry Coffin has integer over flow, try this one:
#include <iostream>
int main(unsigned long long i)
{
int j = 0;
for( std::cin>>i; i>1; i = i&1? i*3+1:i/2, ++j)
std::cout<<i<<" -> ";
std::cout<<"\n"<<j << " iterations\n";
}
tested with
The number less than 100 million with the longest total stopping time is 63,728,127, with 949 steps.
The number less than 1 billion with the longest total stopping time is 670,617,279, with 986 steps.

Answer 29

ruby, 43, possibly meeting the I/O requirement
Run with ruby -n hail
n=$_.to_i
(n=n%2>0?n*3+1: n/2
p n)while n>1

Answer 30

C# : 659 chars with BigInteger support
using System.Linq;using C=System.Console;class Program{static void Main(){var v=C.ReadLine();C.Write(v);while(v!="1"){C.Write("->");if(v[v.Length-1]%2==0){v=v.Aggregate(new{s="",o=0},(r,c)=>new{s=r.s+(char)((c-48)/2+r.o+48),o=(c%2)*5}).s.TrimStart('0');}else{var q=v.Reverse().Aggregate(new{s="",o=0},(r, c)=>new{s=(char)((c-48)*3+r.o+(c*3+r.o>153?c*3+r.o>163?28:38:48))+r.s,o=c*3+r.o>153?c*3+r.o>163?2:1:0});var t=(q.o+q.s).TrimStart('0').Reverse();var x=t.First();q=t.Skip(1).Aggregate(new{s=x>56?(x-57).ToString():(x-47).ToString(),o=x>56?1:0},(r,c)=>new{s=(char)(c-48+r.o+(c+r.o>57?38:48))+r.s,o=c+r.o>57?1:0});v=(q.o+q.s).TrimStart('0');}C.Write(v);}}}
Ungolfed
using System.Linq;
using C = System.Console;
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
var v = C.ReadLine();
C.Write(v);
while (v != "1")
{
C.Write("->");
if (v[v.Length - 1] % 2 == 0)
{
v = v
.Aggregate(
new { s = "", o = 0 },
(r, c) => new { s = r.s + (char)((c - 48) / 2 + r.o + 48), o = (c % 2) * 5 })
.s.TrimStart('0');
}
else
{
var q = v
.Reverse()
.Aggregate(
new { s = "", o = 0 },
(r, c) => new { s = (char)((c - 48) * 3 + r.o + (c * 3 + r.o > 153 ? c * 3 + r.o > 163 ? 28 : 38 : 48)) + r.s, o = c * 3 + r.o > 153 ? c * 3 + r.o > 163 ? 2 : 1 : 0 });
var t = (q.o + q.s)
.TrimStart('0')
.Reverse();
var x = t.First();
q = t
.Skip(1)
.Aggregate(
new { s = x > 56 ? (x - 57).ToString() : (x - 47).ToString(), o = x > 56 ? 1 : 0 },
(r, c) => new { s = (char)(c - 48 + r.o + (c + r.o > 57 ? 38 : 48)) + r.s, o = c + r.o > 57 ? 1 : 0 });
v = (q.o + q.s)
.TrimStart('0');
}
C.Write(v);
}
}
}