From 69ec3783775b9d3f3962603d390590c9844bf0f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: steven-y-e <steven@mineral.town>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:03:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat(solution): problem #14

---
 solutions/014/longestcollatzsequence.py | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 solutions/014/longestcollatzsequence.py

diff --git a/solutions/014/longestcollatzsequence.py b/solutions/014/longestcollatzsequence.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..67caee8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solutions/014/longestcollatzsequence.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+def collatz_to_one(n):
+    chainLength = 1
+    while (n > 1):
+        if n % 2 == 0:
+            n = n/2
+        else:
+            n = 3 * n + 1
+        chainLength += 1
+    return chainLength
+
+longestChain = 0
+
+for i in range(1000000):
+    currentChain = collatz_to_one(i)
+    if currentChain > longestChain:
+        longestChain = currentChain
+        print("current longest chain: " + str(longestChain) + " (from " + str(i) + ")")
+
+print("done")
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