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I forgot I changed the loop from counter != second number to counter <=secondnumber

making the bigger number entered first not work!

Oops

Thanks.

Okay.

I narrowed down what my program was doing.

Geez.

It's a simple problem that's cursed website owners and commercial enterprises.

I found a test case number (by putting in ranges of test inputs) which I wont reveal here, unless asked of course, that when I put in that number as input, my ...

Okay.

Now it compiles (because I forgot that stupid return statement)

Now it reports TIME LIMIT EXCEEDED.

Is my program that inefficient?

oh ...


like DUH...

Lets see if that works then.

Im getting discouraged here.

I know the algorithm. Ive compiled successfully on linux with gcc using the -ansi flag.

But yet Im getting the CE problem.

Here is the code:

/* 3N+1

*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int cycles(long);
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int result = 1;
long ...