Alphamagic square in Spanish
by John from John D. Cook on (#197HT)
In a previous post I gave an example of an alphamagic square in English. This is a magic square such that if you replace each number with the letter count when spelling out the word, you get another magic square.
I wondered whether I could find an alphamagic square in Spanish, so I wrote a script to look. I found two. (Plus there are eight rotations and reflections of each.)
The first is the following:
When spelled out in Spanish the numbers are:
And the number of letters in each cell gives:
Here's a second example:
Spelled out in Spanish:
Sum of the letters:
If my script is correct, these are the only examples (besides their rotations and reflections) for numbers between 1 and 200.