Magic Square

🎯 Solve a magic square.

• create a magic square with 3 * 3 fields.

• fill the square with the numbers from 1-9

• the sum of the numbers in each row, column and diagonal shall be 15

• use each number only once

• print the finished square

Hints

• Write a function that calculates all sums

• A brute-force approach is to try out all permutations*

• See the itertools module

Extra Challenge

Fill a magic square with 4 * 4 fields with the numbers 1-16 (sum 34).

If you don’t want to try all the possibilities (9!), you can describe the magic square as a linear system of equations. The Python package PuLP allows you to express the necessary equations in a very compact way.

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