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Rich dynamical behaviors from a digital reversal operation

Chaotic Dynamics 2026-03-16 v2

Abstract

Repeatedly adding or subtracting the digital reversal to or from an integer, depending on which one is larger, can be treated as a dynamical system. On one hand, a three-digit version of this map running only two steps is the 1089 mathematical trick problem; on the other hand, this mapping can be compared to John Conway's reverse-add-then-sort (RATS) iteration, as well as the 3x+1 problem, also known as Collatz's map. We numerically run this map and find interesting dynamics, including limiting cycles with unusual periodicity and length-8 diverging trajectories.

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@article{arxiv.2408.02527,
  title  = {Rich dynamical behaviors from a digital reversal operation},
  author = {Yannis Almirantis and Wentian Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.02527},
  year   = {2026}
}

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