Write a function named hailstone that takes a positive integer parameter as the initial number of a
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Write a function named hailstone that takes a positive integer parameter as the initial number of a hailstone sequence and returns how many steps it takes to reach 1 (technically you could keep going 1, 4, 2, 1, 4, 2, etc. but you will stop when you first reach 1). If the starting integer is 1, the return value should be 0, since it takes no steps to reach 1 (we're already there). For example, if the starting integer is 3, then the sequence would go: 3, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1, and the return value should be 7, since it took 7 steps to reach 1. Your function does not need to print anything out - just return a value.
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