TRANSPORTATION TO ACUPUNCTURE APPOINTMENT: The standard mileage rate allowed for out-of-pocket expenses for a car when you use it for medical reasons. Bus, taxi, train and plane fares primarily for and essential to medical care are also included.
Let LIS(Ë) denote the length of the longest increasing sequence in Ë. A sequence Ëis monotone if Ë(1) Ë(2) Ë(n). We consider edit operations on a sequence. where a single edit operation involves deleting a single element of the sequence and inserting it in. a new place.
Problem: The following iterative sequence is defined for the set of positive integers: \[n\rightarrow\begin{cases}n/2 & n \text{ even}\\ 3n+1 & n \text{ odd}\end{cases}\] Using the rule above and starting with 13, we generate the following sequence: