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Part of 1992 Chile National Olympiad

Problems(1)

magic square nxn with fixed sum close to 1992 (Chile NMO 1992 P7)

Source:

11/20/2021
∙\bullet Determine a natural nn such that the constant sum SS of a magic square of n×n n \times n (that is, the sum of its elements in any column, or the diagonal) differs as little as possible from 19921992.
∙\bullet Construct or describe the construction of this magic square.
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