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There Is a \(3\times 3\) Magic Square of Squares on the Moon—A Lot of Them, Actually

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Notes

  1. See sequence A087019 in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences [3].

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  1. Enigmas on Magic Squares. Available at http://www.multimagie.com/English/Enigmas.htm.

  2. David Applegate, Marc LeBrun, and N. J. A. Sloane. Dismal Arithmetic. arXiv:1107.1130, 2011.

  3. The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. Available at http://oeis.org.

  4. http://www.multimagie.com/English/SquaresOfSquaresSearch.htm.

  5. Sloane, Primes on the Moon (Lunar Arithmetic), Numberphile, interview by Brady Haran, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZkGeR9CWbk.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of California San Diego (UCSD), 9500 Gilman Drive #0112, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0112, USA

    Christian Woll

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Woll, C. There Is a \(3\times 3\) Magic Square of Squares on the Moon—A Lot of Them, Actually. Math Intelligencer 41, 73–76 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-018-09866-4

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