ok heres my problem..
1. if x is even, divide x by 2.
2. if x is odd, multiply x by 3 and add 1, and count 1 step.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you arrive at the number 1.

For example, if we begin with 13, the sequence we obtain is:
13, 40, 20, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1
with 2 steps (from 13 to 40 and from 5 to 16).

this is my code so far... cant seem to get the loop working but i got the even/odd going...

Code:
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;
int steps(int a);

int main()
{
    int month;
    cout<<"enter month: "<<endl;
    cin>>month;
    
    cout<<steps(month)<<endl;
    
    system("PAUSE");
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

int steps(int a)
{
    int s = 1;
    int count = 0;
    int answer;
    
    for (int x = 0; x>1; x++) <---- i have a feeling something is wrong here...
    {
      if (a%2==0)
      {
      answer = a/2;
      
      }
      else
      {
       answer = (a * 3) + 1;
       count++;
       cout<<answer<<endl;
      }
    }
    
    return count;
}
thanks in advanced!!