A magic square is one in which all rows and columns, and the two main diagonals, sum to the same total. A knight's tour is a tour of the board in which, using knight's moves, all squares are visited exactly once. When the squares visited are numbered from 1 to 64, if the square is magic (but without including the two main diagonals), this is termed a magic knight's tour. This paper describes two magic knight's tours on an 8 by 8 board found in early 2003, the first new tours to be discovered since 1988, and the first irregular tours to be discovered since 1936.
Funding
Category 1 - Australian Competitive Grants (this includes ARC, NHMRC)
History
Volume
89
Issue
514
Start Page
22
End Page
27
Number of Pages
6
ISSN
0025-5572
Location
Leicester
Publisher
The Mathematical Association
Language
en-aus
Peer Reviewed
Yes
Open Access
No
External Author Affiliations
Faculty of Informatics and Communication; TBA Research Institute;