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.
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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.
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