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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Generating 4 x 4 magic squares

Inspired by Ramanujan, I am playing, experimenting, with 4 x 4 magic squares. I have ( independently ) found a way to generate them, infinite many of them if necessary. What's interesting about it is that theoretically the method should work for n x n magic squares.

15 0 9 8
5 5 4 18
5 13 10 4
7 14 9 2

15 10 10 7
6 13 5 18
4 13 11 14
17 6 16 3

16 106 160 79
156 85 6 114
1 88 182 90
188 82 13 78

Two follow-up projects come to mind. 1) A reading experiment. Since I discovered part about mathematics independently ( thanks to Ramanujan's 3 x 3 formula, of course ) reading about this topic in the literature should be quite different compared to reading about a subject you know nothing about, i.e. when the reading-protocol is 'discovery'. Anyway, that is the experiment. 2) A writing experiment. I'll try to write down the method I use with as much rigor as I possibly can. Will I be able to produce something readable? - Unfortunately I have more urgent tasks to handle.

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