A Construction of Addition-Multiplication Magic Squares Using Orthogonal Diagonal Latin Squares

Liang Peiji1, Sun Rongguo2, Ku Tunghsin3, Zhu Lie4
1Association of Science, Fengqiu County 453300, China
2Research Institute of Educational Science, Xining 810000, China
3Hefei Branch of Academia Sinica, Hefei 230031, China
4Suzhou University, Suzhou 215006, China

Abstract

An addition-multiplication magic square of order \(n\) is an \(n \times n\) matrix whose entries are \(n^2\) distinct positive integers such that not only the sum but also the product of the entries in each row, column, main diagonal, and back diagonal is a constant. It is shown in this paper that such a square exists for any order \(mn\), where \(m\) and \(n\) are positive integers and \(m, n \notin \{1, 2, 3, 6\}\).