Applications for Collatz's Conjecture?

[Namir]

I was hoping for an unobvious (and indeed clever) connection between the Collatz sequence and, say, random number generation perhaps based on one or more of the following:

1. The length of the sequence.
2. The maximum value in the sequence.
3. The mean and standard deviation of all or some (like the upper quartile) numbers in the sequence.

I am still hoping .... and thinking!!!

Namir

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