[seqfan] Q about magic squares as produced by Matlab

[Neil Sloane]

Dear Seqfans, Sequence A160523 is
a(n) is the determinant of the magic square of order n produced by Matlab.
1, -360, 0, 5070000, 0, -348052801600
Offset 1 (which must be wrong)
(Matlab) det(magic(n));

I just received an email from someone saying:

"det(magic(2)) = -10 and maybe a(2) should be added the sequence."

 and giving the matrix
1 3

4 2

- which of course is not a magic square of order 2. There are no magic
squares of order 2. But maybe Matlab thinks there are.

There is clearly something wrong with A160253.

Could someone who has access to Matlab kindly check it?


Best regards
Neil

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