Problem 1087. Magic is simple (for beginners)

Created by Jean-Marie Sainthillier

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Michael Green on 8 Feb 2021

This problem could probably be explained a little better.

Dave on 30 Jun 2021

This is pretty simple given that there is a built in function to build magic squares. If not, the algorithm to "manually" build a magic square by filling a matrix is already well-known.

N/A on 1 Apr 2022

sounds interesting!

Gizem Deniz Akkas on 18 Apr 2022

may be good practice but explanation is confusing!

Ayush on 11 Jul 2022

good practice!

Patrick on 11 Jul 2022

Would be nice to include a image of magic square for those who are not familiar with it

Joseph Principe on 30 Jul 2022

Good problem

Farooq on 22 Sep 2022

I use the sum(n) and it gives me 15 for all the rows or the columns. What is wrong with this, because it does not accept this answer. I also calculated the sum of the first row to get just 15 once, still it does not accept it.

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Josh Klueber on 16 Nov 2021

tricky

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john perkins on 4 May 2021

good problem

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Anshul Kumar Yadav on 4 Nov 2020

m= magic_sum(n)
z=magic(n);
m=sum(z(:));

why this aint working

HARSH RAITHATHA on 16 Nov 2020

@Anshul, Because here we want the sum of particular row, and your soln defines the sum of all the elements in the matrix!

Anshul Kumar Yadav on 26 Nov 2020

@harsh thanks

Isabella Stellitano on 7 Nov 2021

Good Problem

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N Raghunadh on 11 Jun 2020

nice question

Umar farooq Mohammad on 2 Oct 2020

Good one

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Sankari Narne on 18 Feb 2020

function m = magic_sum(n)
x = magic(n);
y = sum(x);
m= randsample(y,1);
end
why it is wrong?

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Lohendran letchmanan on 14 Sep 2019

its hard

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