Collatz Parity

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What It Is

Collatz parity sequence --- binary trace (even/odd) of the full 3n+1 orbit. Each odd step (3n+1) always lands on an even number, halved ~2 times on average (geometric, mean 2), so it behaves like a biased coin with P(odd) ≈ 1/3 --- one odd per ~2 halvings. Restarts from consecutive integers on cycle collapse

Interpretation

Standard analysis sees: bounded / light-tailed; few distinct values; anti-correlated (alternating); blue spectrum (high-frequency power); homoskedastic. The atlas finds no named structure, but the source is distinctively extreme on Hyperbolic (Poincaré):temporal_variance (+4.7z) — beyond what the standard bank predicts for it. It sits beside Symbolic Henon in the atlas (standard-bank rank 29) — a neighbor conventional features miss.

What standard analysis sees
tail heaviness0.12
asymmetry0.80
occupancy0.02
short-range corr0.06
long-range memory0.22
spectral colour0.92
periodicity0.33
complexity0.30
time-irreversibility0.46
volatility clustering0.03
multifractality0.41
dimensionality0.52
nonstationarity0.22
What the atlas adds
Atlas-extreme metrics the standard bank can’t predict for this source
Hyperbolic (Poincaré):temporal_variance+4.7zbank-miss 1.2σ
Zariski:heyting_gap+4.2zbank-miss 1.2σ
Projective ℙ²:collinearity-2.8zbank-miss 1.7σ

Composition

dtypefloat64
range[0, 1]
unique values2 / 16384
mean ± std0.345 ± 0.475

Binary sequence — two distinct symbols.

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Atlas Position

Nearest neighborDistance
Golden-Mean β-Shift2.53cross-origin
Gap-Word β-Shift2.96cross-origin
Symbolic Henon3.40cross-origin

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Which Geometries Light Up

Hyperbolic (Poincaré)Hyperbolic (Poincaré):temporal_variancerank 2/30718.9112
MoiréMoiré:moire_invariance_breadthrank 304/3070.0031
Ulam Spiral (Square)Ulam Spiral (Square):radon_anisotropyrank 305/3070.0002
Visibility GraphVisibility Graph:degree_exponent_gammarank 4/3072.7659
ZariskiZariski:residual_convexityrank 4/30714.4790
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