Alright, so today I’m gonna walk you through my little experiment with the “gordon number 4” thing. Heard about it, sounded kinda interesting, so I thought, “Why not give it a shot?”
First things first, I googled that sucker. Wanted to make sure I wasn’t walking into some kind of weird internet rabbit hole. Found a bunch of stuff, mostly forum posts and some articles. Got the gist of what it’s supposed to do – some kind of number manipulation, leading to a specific outcome. Okay, cool.
Next, I fired up my Python interpreter. Yeah, I know, probably overkill for something this simple, but I like Python. I started by writing a function. Nothing fancy, just something to take a number as input and spit out the “gordon number 4” result.
Here’s roughly what the code looked like (don’t judge my variable names, I was just messing around):
- def gordon_number_4(n):
- # Some number-crunching logic here
- return result
Okay, so then the real fun began. I started plugging in numbers. Random numbers, my birthdate, my lucky number (which didn’t seem so lucky after a few rounds of this). It was surprisingly addictive, like one of those dumb phone games you can’t put down.
At first, I was just throwing numbers at it, seeing what stuck. Then, I started noticing some patterns. Certain numbers seemed to lead to a dead end pretty quickly, while others took a longer, more circuitous route to the final answer. It was like watching a little digital maze unfold.
I even tried throwing in some negative numbers, just to see what would happen. That got… interesting. Let’s just say it involved a lot of `if` statements in my function to handle those edge cases.
To make it a bit more visual, I decided to plot some of the results. Whipped up a quick Matplotlib script to graph the number of steps it took to reach the final result for different starting numbers. That was pretty cool – saw some definite clusters and outliers.
Honestly, after a few hours, I was pretty much staring at numbers. My brain was starting to feel like a calculator. But, I did learn a few things:
- The “gordon number 4” thing is kinda neat, in a nerdy sort of way.
- Python is still my go-to for quick and dirty experiments.
- I need to find a hobby that doesn’t involve staring at a screen all day.
So, yeah, that’s my “gordon number 4” adventure. Might not change the world, but it was a fun little diversion for an afternoon.
