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mainNumber = 10000
count = 0

def addNumber():
    global mainNumber
    if mainNumber >= 0:
        mainNumber += 10
    if mainNumber >= 9:
        mainNumber += 7
    else:
        mainNumber += 13

def subNumber():
    global mainNumber
    if mainNumber >= 10:
        mainNumber -= 6
    elif mainNumber >= 100:
        mainNumber -= 56
    elif mainNumber >= 1000:
        mainNumber -= 560
    else:
        mainNumber -= 2

def multNumber():
    global mainNumber
    if mainNumber <= 100:
        mainNumber = mainNumber * 2
    else:
        mainNumber = mainNumber * 3

def divNumber():
    global mainNumber
    if mainNumber > 1000:
        mainNumber = mainNumber / 5
    if mainNumber < 1000:
        mainNumber = mainNumber / 3
    if mainNumber < 0:
        mainNumber = mainNumber * -1

while mainNumber != 1:
    count += 1
    addNumber()
    subNumber()
    multNumber()
    divNumber()
    print(mainNumber)
    if count == 1000:
        break

This is not the most interesting script in the world, I made it to practice while loops that I absolutely sucked at and see what funky things happen.

This script does nothing if you put in mainNumber = 1 for obvious reasons, but if you put in 2-21 it will evaluate to 21.99999999999999, 22 evaluates to 22 1000 times, and mainNumber = 23 or higher evaluates to 22.00000000000001.

I have not found a whole number that doesn't follow this pattern yet (Truthfully haven't dug as far as I would like) but it is interesting how this little practice script did something like this when I was just messing around.