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A006052 Number of magic squares of order n composed of the numbers from 1 to n^2, counted up to rotations and reflections.
(Formerly M5482)
39
1, 0, 1, 880, 275305224 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
1,4
COMMENTS
a(4) computed by Frenicle de Bessy (1605? - 1675), published in 1693. The article mentions the 880 squares and considers also 5*5, 6*6, 8*8, and other squares. - Paul Curtz, Jul 13 and Aug 12 2011
a(5) computed by Richard C. Schroeppel in 1973.
According to Pinn and Wieczerkowski, a(6) = (0.17745 +- 0.00016) * 10^20. - R. K. Guy, May 01 2004
Unconfirmed, a(6) = 17753889189701385264. See Mino link. - Hidetoshi Mino, Sep 07 2023
REFERENCES
E. R. Berlekamp, J. H. Conway and R. K. Guy, Winning Ways, Vol. II, pp. 778-783 gives the 880 4 X 4 squares.
M. Gardner, Mathematical Games, Sci. Amer. Vol. 249 (No. 1, 1976), p. 118.
M. Gardner, Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments. Freeman, NY, 1988, p. 216.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
Frenicle de Bessy, Des carrez ou tables magiques, Divers ouvrages de mathématique et de physique (1693), pp. 423-483.
Frenicle de Bessy, Table générale des carrez de quatre, Divers ouvrages de mathématique et de physique (1693), pp. 484-503.
Skylar R. Croy, Jeremy A. Hansen, and Daniel J. McQuillan, Calculating the Number of Order-6 Magic Squares with Modular Lifting, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2016).
Mahadi Hasan and Md. Masbaul Alam Polash, An Efficient Constraint-Based Local Search for Maximizing Water Retention on Magic Squares, Emerging Trends in Electrical, Communications, and Information Technologies, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering book series (LNEE 2019) Vol. 569, 71-79.
I. Peterson, Magic Tesseracts.
K. Pinn and C. Wieczerkowski, Number of magic squares from parallel tempering Monte Carlo, arXiv:cond-mat/9804109 [cond-mat.stat-mech], 1998; Internat. J. Modern Phys., 9 (4) (1998) 541-546.
Artem Ripatti, On the number of semi-magic squares of order 6, arXiv:1807.02983 [math.CO], 2018. See Table 1 p. 2.
N. J. A. Sloane & J. R. Hendricks, Correspondence, 1974.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Magic Square.
EXAMPLE
An illustration of the unique (up to rotations and reflections) magic square of order 3:
+---+---+---+
| 2 | 7 | 6 |
+---+---+---+
| 9 | 5 | 1 |
+---+---+---+
| 4 | 3 | 8 |
+---+---+---+
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A206341 A357495 A024393 * A105976 A340342 A265181
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,nice,more
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Definition corrected by Max Alekseyev, Dec 25 2015
a(6) from Hidetoshi Mino, Jul 17 2023
Incorrect a(6) removed by Hidetoshi Mino, Sep 07 2023
STATUS
approved

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