Problem 44450. Create a magic square matrix for a given odd integer

Created by Sushovan Basu

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James on 7 Jan 2019

It looks like we don't actually need to create a magic square for this problem. We just need to figure out what the magic sum would be.

Rafael S.T. Vieira on 11 Oct 2020 at 1:28

The test suite needs to be improved. It's a good problem, and building an odd magic square is not that hard, but to avoid cheating the function magic should be prohibited and the test suite should require and test the returned matrix.

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