How Do You Make Trillions Of 16X16 Magic Squares?
• Make a 4×4 magic square, which will have numbers from 1 to 16, and a total of 34 for all its rows, columns and main 2 diagonals. If not make the square with the help of square given to the right. • Here A, B, C, D, have to take one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and a, b, c, d, have to take numbers from 0, 4, 8, 12. It can be vice- versa also. This ensures that we have all numbers from 1 to 16 and total is 34. • Stretch the 4×4 magic square into a 16×16 magic square using 16 copies of each multiple of 16 as shown. • Add any 4×4 magic square to each grid in the previous step. It doesn’t matter if you use the same 4×4 magic square for each piece of the grid or not. Now that we have a 4×4 square to form the 16×16 square all we need to do is – in place of 1 insert a 4×4 square with numbers from 1 to 16, in place of 2 insert a 4×4 square with numbers from 17 to 32, in place of 3 insert a 4×4 square with numbers from 33 to 48, and so on …… in place of 15 insert a 4×4 square with numbers fro
