Aliquot Orbit Lengths

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What It Is

Aliquot sequence orbit lengths --- number of steps before s(n)=sigma(n)-n iteration terminates (reaches 1, enters a cycle, or escapes the sieve). Distinct erratic arithmetic from Collatz Stopping Times: divisor-sum dynamics instead of 3n+1 parity. Catalan-Dickson conjecture (some orbits unbounded, e.g. n=276) means a few orbits don't terminate; in practice they exit at ~20-25 steps when σ(n) escapes the SIGMA_MAX sieve (well short of the MAX_STEPS cap), so divergent orbits appear as ordinary small counts, not a MAX_STEPS ceiling

Interpretation

Standard analysis sees: right-skewed; anti-correlated (alternating); homoskedastic. The atlas finds no named structure, but the source is distinctively extreme on Nonstationarity:variance_trend (+2.7z) — beyond what the standard bank predicts for it.

What standard analysis sees
tail heaviness0.79
asymmetry0.87
occupancy0.24
short-range corr0.07
long-range memory0.20
spectral colour0.72
periodicity0.81
complexity0.51
time-irreversibility0.35
volatility clustering0.10
multifractality0.33
dimensionality0.55
nonstationarity0.49
What the atlas adds
Atlas-extreme metrics the standard bank can’t predict for this source
Nonstationarity:variance_trend+2.7zbank-miss 1.4σ
Moiré:moire_peak_alpha+2.7zbank-miss 1.3σ

Composition

dtypefloat64
range[1, 69]
unique values63 / 16384
mean ± std10.1 ± 8.83

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Atlas Position

Nearest neighborDistance
Divisor Count3.87
Prime Gaps3.97
Collatz Flights4.01

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Which Geometries Light Up

H4 600-CellH4 600-Cell:lattice_closurerank 3/3070.9995
MoiréMoiré:moire_peak_alpharank 4/3073.4000
NonstationarityNonstationarity:ac1_trendrank 2/3070.4348
NonstationarityNonstationarity:variance_trendrank 5/3070.2995
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