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9 years ago

When Mathematics Meets Politics in a Lunchbox

When Mathematics Meets Politics in a Lunchbox

Every time a grisly murder ordered by his father, King Taejong, takes place, King Sejong despondently buries himself in magic squares—n x n matrices in which each number from 1 to n2 appears just once and the sum of numbers in each row, column and main diagonal (a value known as “magic constant“) is identical. But the troubling news would not leave him alone in this introductory portion of Tree…

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4 years ago

In looking for rhyme inspirations, I turned to quadratic equations. But there's more than quadratics In recreational mathematics -- You get rhymes like "concatenations"! - Mod B

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