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The Stenographic Affine Plane, Oscar Thumpbindle, Jeremiah Farrell
The Stenographic Affine Plane, Oscar Thumpbindle, Jeremiah Farrell
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
This square, composed of familiar words, is semimagic because any row or column (the rook sweeps) anagrams into STENOGRAPHIC. "Semi" means the diagonals don't. However, there are four very special diagonals; those that have words with one of the four vowels of STENOGRAPHIC in common. These four bishop sweeps will be important later. Keeping with the chess piece theme, the reader will take notice of the knight 4-tours using the consonants P, H, Rand C. For example one of these is the P-tour SAP, PEG, PIN and TOP. Another set of knight tours traces the letters S, T, G and …
The Magic Octahedron, Jeremiah Farrell
The Magic Octahedron, Jeremiah Farrell
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
An octahedral die has several advantages over its cubic cousin, not the least of which is its ability to magically model a four dimensional tesseract. We will use a four coloring of the die to illustrate the magic.