From babde01d169bf66582124808b65051cd6cb43c92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "exercism-solutions-syncer[bot]"
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Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 14:45:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [Sync Iteration] go/collatz-conjecture/1

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 .../1/collatz_conjecture.go                   | 22 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 solutions/go/collatz-conjecture/1/collatz_conjecture.go

diff --git a/solutions/go/collatz-conjecture/1/collatz_conjecture.go b/solutions/go/collatz-conjecture/1/collatz_conjecture.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b3a1486
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solutions/go/collatz-conjecture/1/collatz_conjecture.go
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package collatzconjecture
+import "errors"
+func CollatzConjecture(n int) (int, error) {
+	num := n
+    var count int
+    if n <= 0 {
+       return 0, errors.New("n is a negative value")
+    }
+    if num > 1{
+      i:= 0
+      for num != 1 {
+        if num % 2 == 0{
+          num = num / 2
+        }else{
+          num = (3 * num)+1
+        }
+        i++
+      }
+      count = i
+    }
+    return count,nil
+}