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Magic squares with empty cells

Abdollah Khodkar, David Leach

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A k-magic square of order n is an arrangement of the numbers from 0 to kn-1 in an n by n matrix, such that each row and each column has exactly k filled cells, each number occurs exactly once, and the sum of the entries of any row or any column is the same. A magic square is called k-diagonal if its entries all belong to k consecutive diagonals. In this paper we prove that a k-diagonal magic square exists if and only if n = k = 1 or 3 <= k <=n and n is odd or k is even.

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A k-magic square of order n is an arrangement of the numbers from 0 to kn-1 in an n by n matrix, such that each row and each column has exactly k filled cells, each number occurs exactly once, and the sum of the entries of any row or any column is the same. A magic square is called k-diagonal if its entries all belong to k consecutive diagonals. In this paper we prove that a k-diagonal magic square exists if and only if n = k = 1 or 3 <= k <=n and n is odd or k is even.

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A k-magic square of order n is an arrangement of the numbers from 0 to kn-1 in an n by n matrix, such that each row and each column has exactly k filled cells, each number occurs exactly once, and the sum of the entries of any row or any column is the same. A magic square is called k-diagonal if its entries all belong to k consecutive diagonals. In this paper we prove that a k-diagonal magic square exists if and only if n = k = 1 or 3 <= k <=n and n is odd or k is even.

Key concepts: Magic square, MAGIC (telescope), Art, Computer science, Mathematics, Combinatorics, Physics, Astronomy

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