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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • was about to fall asleep but then PROPOSITION:

    • all magic squares are constant multitles (all numbers multiplied by a certain value), or shifted (all numbers added to by a certain value) of a very few variations of “base” magic squares this seems intuitively true by a sleepy deprived person at 1am, but if we can prove for these “base” squares, would that be the way to prove for the general case?

    i.e. there r and infinite number of 1x1 magic squares, but there is only one case to deal with if we want to prove anytning about it


  • this is actually interesting, im currently on bed so im not writing a proof, but the rule for a 3x3 magic square of conseqetive numbers seemed to be (tested on one other example) that its inverse is 1/(3*middle number), the 3 could be the dimension of the square?

    if this is true, this begs the questions:

    • is it still true for squares of non conseqetive numbers?
    • what happens when the square is 4x4 where a centre number doesnt exist

    either way im gonna have a go at it when i wake up tmr, and im pinning this for being one of the coolests finds in the community