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Magic letter groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Mike Pearson  and
Ian Short
Mike Pearson
Affiliation:
NRICH Mathematics Project, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WB, email: [email protected]
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Certain numeric puzzles, known as ‘magic letters’, each have a finite permutation group associated with them in a natural manner. We describe how the isomorphism type of these permutation groups relates to the structure of the magic letters.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 91 , Issue 522 , November 2007 , pp. 493 - 499
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2007

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The second author was supported by Science Foundation Ireland, grant 05/RFP/MAT0003.

References

1. Robinson, Derek J. S. A course in the theory of groups, Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics 80 (1996).Google Scholar