10 Oct
2005
10 Oct
'05
4:07 a.m.
After 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, what about 6x6? My algorithm needs to be better optimized to attack the question. I will work on it in the next days. The smallest published 6x6 seems to be an example constructed by Borkovitz & Hwang, with magic product = 2,000,376,000. My question: can somebody produce an example with a smaller product? Michael Kleber? Rich? Unfortunately the latin squares method, used in previous messages for 4x4 and 5x5, does not work for 6x6: the famous "36-officers problem" of Euler has no solution! Christian.