Re:Show HN: The King Wen Permutation: [52, 10, 2]
by kazishariar on Monday March 23, 2026 @08:57AM
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How/Can you compare this to Magic Squares?
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Re:Show HN: The King Wen Permutation: [52, 10, 2]
by gezhengwen on Monday March 23, 2026 @09:40AM
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The I Ching has a historical connection to magic squares — the Lo Shu is a 3x3 magic square traditionally linked to the I Ching. But
cycle decomposition analyzes the permutation between two orderings, which is a different mathematical structure from the
row/column/diagonal sums of magic squares. That said, it is an interesting direction worth exploring.