colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (12/28/85)
Can anybody point me to a magic cube of order 6? A magic cube is one whose 108 rows and 4 solid diagonals all add up to the same number--651 if it's numbered from 1 to 216. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva
stan@clt.DEC (Stanley Rabinowitz) (12/31/85)
Col. G. L. Sicherman asked for a magic cube of order 6. The following example comes from [1]. Each of the 108 orthogonal rows sums to 651 as well as the 4 space diagonals. It consists of all the integers from 1 to 216. Other magic cubes of order 6 are also given in [1] as well as methods of construction. Reference: [1] W.S. Andrews, Magic Squares and Cubes, Dover Publications, Inc. New York: 1960. Page 197. Example of a magic cube of order 6: 4 139 161 26 174 147 85 166 107 188 93 12 98 152 138 3 103 157 Level 1 179 17 84 165 184 22 183 21 13 175 89 170 102 156 148 94 8 143 193 58 80 215 39 66 112 31 134 53 120 201 125 71 57 192 130 76 Level 2 44 206 111 30 49 211 48 210 202 40 116 35 129 75 67 121 197 62 18 153 136 163 23 158 99 180 1 82 104 185 181 19 95 176 171 9 Level 3 100 154 149 14 90 144 167 5 108 189 172 10 86 140 162 27 91 145 207 72 55 28 212 77 126 45 190 109 131 50 46 208 122 41 36 198 Level 4 127 73 68 203 117 63 32 194 135 54 37 199 113 59 81 216 118 64 155 20 150 15 169 142 101 182 96 177 88 7 6 87 106 187 92 173 Level 5 141 168 160 25 11 146 151 16 137 83 105 159 97 178 2 164 186 24 74 209 69 204 34 61 128 47 123 42 115 196 195 114 133 52 119 38 Level 6 60 33 79 214 200 65 70 205 56 110 132 78 124 43 191 29 51 213 Stanley Rabinowitz UUCP: ...{decvax,ucbvax,allegra}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-tools!stan ARPA: stan%tools.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA ENET: {tools,clt,hare,turtle}::stan USPS: 6 Country Club Lane, Merrimack, NH 03054 (603) 424-2616