OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
This is the first known trimagic square. It contains all numbers from 1 to 16384. The magic sum is 1048640; when each number is squared, the magic sum is 11454294720; and when each number is cubed, the magic sum is 140754668748800.
Terms are taken from Christian Boyer's Multimagie website (see links).
LINKS
Paolo Xausa, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..16384
Christian Boyer, Trimagic square, 128th-order.
Brady Haran and Matt Parker, A Magic Square Breakthrough, YouTube Numberphile video, 2025.
EXAMPLE
The magic square is:
[16132 130 16381 127 16128 ... 11854 4301 12111 4148 12210]
[ 128 16382 129 16131 388 ... 4402 12209 4147 12112 4302]
[16002 260 15999 509 16254 ... 12240 4431 11981 4530 11828]
[ 510 16000 259 16001 2 ... 4276 11827 4529 11982 4432]
[ 257 16003 512 15998 253 ... 4175 11984 4430 11825 4531]
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
[ 4642 11684 4831 11613 5086 ... 7496 9159 7237 9018 7356]
[ 4829 11615 4644 11682 4897 ... 7611 9020 7354 9157 7239]
[11681 4643 11616 4830 11357 ... 8903 7240 9158 7353 9019]
[ 4959 11485 5026 11300 4771 ... 7225 8890 7484 8775 7621]
[11299 5025 11486 4960 11743 ... 9029 7622 8776 7483 8889]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,tabf,fini,full
AUTHOR
Paolo Xausa, Feb 13 2025
STATUS
approved