Announcement:
Water Retention Magic Square contest at:
http://www.azspcs.net/Contest/MagicWaterWater Retention Magic Square contest at:
What is a magic square:
http://luo-shu.com/book/part_two/3X3_magic_square_lo_shu_format_examples_luo_shu_formula_pythagorean_triad
What is a water retention magic square:
http://luo-shu.com/book/part_three/outside_contributions
The contest has attracted 130 participants from 29 countries. The discussion board gives an interesting look into the minds of some brilliant computer programmers. One enjoyable debate is which programming language is the best suited for the contest.
What I have been able to glean so far, though not a programmer; is that there is no perfect language or development environment. An individual's genius and focus is what yield results. Some computer languages appear more suitable for this competition. From the discussion board commentary:
Prefered languages/environments/algorithm:
Turbo Pascal (outdated?)
C++
C #
Brainfuck: no kidding, that is the name: reputed to be one of the simplest languages.
PowerShell
zetagrid algorithm
Languages/environments lacking:
Java
