The First Pig Latine Alphamagic Square

First Known Alpha Magic Square in Pig Latin - I Think

The faculty, staff and students at MBIOM (Mr. B's Institute of Mathematology) worked together to find the first Alpha Magic Square written in Pig Latin.  We believe that this is the first Alpha Magic Square discovered that uses Pig Latin.

Start with the following magic square:

5	22	18
28	15	2
12	8	25

Now consider the array of corresponding number names written in Pig Latin (also known as igpay atinlay):

ivefay	enty-twotway	eighteenay
enty-eighttway	ifteenfay	otway
elvetway	eightay	enty-fivetway

Counting the letters in each number name generates the following square which turns out to also be magic:

6	11	10
13	9	5
8	7	12

(Discovered June 8, 2014 by the MBIOM Advanced Alphamagic Square Research Team)

Known alphamagic squares have been discoverer in many languages including (but not limited to): Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Latin, Maltese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Samoan, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh.

Research teams at MBIOM are currently working on the issue of alphamagic squares in: Obish (also known as Obby Dobby, or Pig Greek), Braille, Morse Code, Vulcan, Romulan and Klingon.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphamagic_square

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_latin

http://www.leesallows.com/files/AMS%20Part%201.pdf

http://www.leesallows.com/files/AMS%20Part%202.pdf

David

Alpha Magic Squares

One of the newest development in the area of study related to magic squares is Alphamagic Squares.  

What are Alphamagic squares?   

Well if you have a magic square, and you copy that magic square, but instead of copying the numerals, but instead write the name of the number (5 becomes “five”, 18 becomes “eighteen”, etc.).  Now create a third square, but instead of writing the names of the numbers count the number of letters in the name of each number and write that number in the new square.  If the 3^rd square is a magic square then the first square is a alpha magic square.

Example:

5	22	18
28	15	2
12	8	25

Now consider the array of corresponding number words.

five	twenty-two	eighteen
twenty-eight	fifteen	two
twelve	eight	twenty-five

Counting the letters in each number word generates the following square which turns out to also be magic.

4	9	8
11	7	3
6	5	10

This square as a magic constant of 21.  All of the columns, all of the rows, and both diagonals sum to 21.  So the first square is an Alphamagic Square in English.  I may not work in French, or other languages.

REFERENCES:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphamagic_square

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Sallows

http://www.leesallows.com/index.php?page_menu=Magic%20Squares&pagename=Alphamagic%20Squares

David

Solution to Friday's Brain-O Quiz

Solution to Fridays Brain-O Quiz.

1.  “S”.  Look at the first letter of each word.

2.  “One word”

3.  6 + 6 + 6 + 6 x 6 = 54

4.  Alaska.  There are islands in the Bering Straits that are on the other side of the international date line – so it is always a day ahead of the rest of Alaska.

5.  A coffin.

David

 

Calendar Update

It is the 335^th day of the year, 1431^st day of the decade, and 5084^th day of the century / millennium.

There are 24 days until Isaac Newton’s birthday, 36 days until Phi (or Golden Ratio Day, 68 days until “e” (or Euler’s Number) Day, 103 days until Pi Day, 209 days until Pi Approximation Day, 233 until Tau Day, and 357 days until Fibonacci Day.

David