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A construction of magic cubes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Marián Trenkler
Marián Trenkler*
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Šafárik University, Jesenná 5, 041 54 Košice, Slovakia
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In this paper a magic cube of order n is a 3-dimensional matrix Qn = {qn(i,j,k); 1 ≤ i,j,k ≤ n} containing natural numbers 1,2, ... n3 such that the sums of the numbers along each row (n-tuple of elements having the same coordinates on two places) and also along each of its four great diagonals are the same. This contrasts with a previous article [1] which considered magic cubes with no requirement for the diagonal sums.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 84 , Issue 499 , March 2000 , pp. 36 - 41
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2000

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1. Trenkler, M. Magic cubes, Math. Gaz. 82 (March 1998) pp. 56–61.Google Scholar
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