Friday, May 21, 2004

magic squares

0 7 9 14
11 12 2 5
6 1 15 8
13 10 4 3
Actually a "pan-magic" (aka panmagic, pandiagonal, pan-diagonal) magic square. All the off diagonals sum to 30. As an added bonus, every 2x2 block, the corners of every 3x3 block, 4x4 block. Not 5x5 of course because that gets the same number 4 times. How can one make a physical contraption taking advantage of this property? I'm imagining mixing 16 different kinds of liquors, or 4x4 plug going into a can't miss sheet of pins with 16 different voltages. A word puzzle hiding the magic property? Sixteen people arrive into town...

1 comment :

Ken said...

Two connector plugs. Resistors or capacitors.