Definition:Magic Hexagon/Mistake
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Source Work
1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers:
- The Dictionary
- $19$
Mistake
- There is only one way in which consecutive integers can be fitted into a magic hexagonal array ... The numbers $1$ to $19$ can be so arranged, a fact first discovered by T. Vickers.
Correction
While T. Vickers did actually publish a result in $1958$, he was not the first to discover it.
Many have discovered it independently, from as far back as Ernst von Haselberg in $1897$.
In David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.), this statement has been removed.
Sources
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $19$