Satanic square

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A satanic square is a magic square that remains magic after all its numbers are raised to a specific (fixed) power. The smallest known normal satanic square, shown below, has order 8.

5 31 35 60 57 34 8 30
19 9 53 46 47 56 18 12
16 22 42 39 52 61 27 1
63 37 25 24 3 14 44 50
26 4 64 49 38 43 13 23
41 51 15 2 21 28 62 40
54 48 20 11 10 17 55 45
36 58 6 29 32 7 33 59

This magic square has a magic constant of 260. Raising every number to the second power yields the following square. It is another magic square with a magic sum of 11180.

25 961 1225 3600 3249 1156 64 900
361 81 2809 2116 2209 3136 324 144
256 484 1764 1521 2704 3721 729 1
3969 1369 625 576 9 196 1936 2500
676 16 4096 2401 1444 1849 169 529
1681 2601 225 4 441 784 3844 1600
2916 2304 400 121 100 289 3025 2025
1296 3364 36 841 1024 49 1089 3481

See also