MATLAB: Trying to combine For and If loop

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I watched a video on the 3n + 1 conjecture and just wanted to try and see if I could create a simple program to replicate a few cycles of it.
What I would like to do is make it so that the program takes an input number, decides if it's odd or even. If even divide it by 2 and then use that number to continue the loop. Or if the value is odd multiply it by 3 and add 1 and then continue the loop.
i.e if the number was 7, it's odd so go to 22, that's even so go to 11, that's odd so go to 34, that's even so go to 17 and so on.
Here's my attempt at it, I just wanted to try it for fun and got nowhere. I'm hoping it's just something small I have to do with the code, if not I can leave it.
#Want to do 10 loops of n
#If n is even /2
#if n is odd n*3 +1
n = input("enter first value for n")
for i = (n:10); 
  disp(i)
  if mod(i, 2) == 0
  % i is even
  ans = sprintf("%d", i ," is even")
  newn = (i/2)
  disp(ans)
  else
  % i is odd
  ans = sprintf("%d", i ," is odd")
  disp(ans)
  newn = (3*n +1)
  end
end

Best Answer

#Want to do 10 loops of n
#If n is even /2
#if n is odd n*3 +1
n = input("enter first value for n")
for i = 1:10 
  disp(n)
  if mod(n, 2) == 0
  % n is even
  ans = sprintf("%d", n ," is even")
  n = n/2
  disp(ans)
  else
  % n is odd
  ans = sprintf("%d", n ," is odd")
  disp(ans)
  n = 3*n +1
  end
end
Best wishes
Torsten.
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