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7x ± 1: Close Relative of the Collatz Problem
We show an iterated function of which iterates oscillate wildly and grow at a dizzying pace. We conjecture that the orbit of arbitrary positive integer always returns to 1, as in the case of the Collatz function. The conjecture is supported by a heuristic argument and computational results.