From 5ba0420bf3b005900212206ec4cd01af9c8a43f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "exercism-solutions-syncer[bot]"
 <211797793+exercism-solutions-syncer[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:01:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [Sync Iteration] go/collatz-conjecture/1

---
 .../1/collatz_conjecture.go                   | 23 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 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..0d84a32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solutions/go/collatz-conjecture/1/collatz_conjecture.go
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package collatzconjecture
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+)
+
+func CollatzConjecture(n int) (int, error) {
+	steps := 0
+
+	if n < 1 {
+		return 0, errors.New("Number must be greater than 0")
+	}
+
+	for n != 1 {
+		if n%2 == 0 {
+			n /= 2
+		} else {
+			n = n*3 + 1
+		}
+		steps++
+	}
+	return steps, nil
+}