Nearly magic rectangles

Feng Shun Chai; Rakhi Singh; John Stufken

doi:10.1002/jcd.21667

Nearly magic rectangles

Feng Shun Chai, Rakhi Singh, John Stufken

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Abstract

Magic squares have been extremely useful and popular in combinatorics and statistics. One generalization of magic squares is magic rectangles which are useful for designing experiments in statistics. A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of magic rectangles restricts the number of rows and columns to be either both odd or both even. In this paper, we generalize magic rectangles to even by odd nearly magic rectangles. We also prove necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a nearly magic rectangle, and construct one for each parameter set for which they exist.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	562-567
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Combinatorial Designs
Volume	27
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/jcd.21667
State	Published - Sep 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

magic rectangle
magic square
row-column design

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Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

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