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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.
[Proof]

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