Scholz’s First Conjecture: A Brief Demonstration
José M. Sautto, Agustín Santiago Moreno, Carlos N. Bouza, Verónica Campos · Applied Mathematics · 2016
This paper presents a brief demonstration of Schulz’s first conjecture, which sets the upper and lower limits on the length of the shortest chain of addition. Two methods of the upper limit are demonstrated; the second one is based on the algorithm of one of the most popular methods for obtaining addition chains of a number, known as the binary method.