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The results proved so far can be used to obtain an upper bound for the number of elements not having a finite stopping time. Let

The following result is the sharpest known result concerning the size of the ``exceptional'' set of n with .

Theorem F

There is a positive constant such that

 

where is the constant defined in Theorem D.

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