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    Recreational mathematics involves puzzles, games and problems related to mathematics done for fun rather than serious study. It relies on logical and lateral thinking skills rather than advanced concepts. Examples include Rubik's Cube, Sudoku, and logic problems. While recreational, it has also influenced the development of fields like graph theory. The document provides examples of Benjamin Franklin's magic square and sociable numbers, chains of numbers where each number is the sum of the proper divisors of the previous number.

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    Recreational mathematics involves puzzles, games and problems related to mathematics done for fun rather than serious study. It relies on logical and lateral thinking skills rather than advanced concepts. Examples include Rubik's Cube, Sudoku, and logic problems. While recreational, it has also influenced the development of fields like graph theory. The document provides examples of Benjamin Franklin's magic square and sociable numbers, chains of numbers where each number is the sum of the proper divisors of the previous number.

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    Recreational mathematics involves puzzles, games and problems related to mathematics done for fun rather than serious study. It relies on logical and lateral thinking skills rather than advanced concepts. Examples include Rubik's Cube, Sudoku, and logic problems. While recreational, it has also influenced the development of fields like graph theory. The document provides examples of Benjamin Franklin's magic square and sociable numbers, chains of numbers where each number is the sum of the proper divisors of the previous number.

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    Recreational mathematics involves puzzles, games and problems related to mathematics done for fun rather than serious study. It relies on logical and lateral thinking skills rather than advanced concepts. Examples include Rubik's Cube, Sudoku, and logic problems. While recreational, it has also influenced the development of fields like graph theory. The document provides examples of Benjamin Franklin's magic square and sociable numbers, chains of numbers where each number is the sum of the proper divisors of the previous number.

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    RECREATIONAL

    MATHEMATICS
    Recreational mathematics is mathematics done for
    recreation or as a hobby and intended to be fun.
    Typically it involves games or puzzles that relate to
    mathematics, although the term can cover other
    material. Typically, recreational mathematics involves
    general logical and lateral thinking skills, as opposed to
    advanced mathematical concepts, so that the average
    person is at least able to understand and appreciate a
    recreational problem and its solution. Recreational
    puzzles can also increase people's appreciation of
    mathematics as a whole.
    Recreational mathematics can be surprisingly popular, with
    millions of people at one time or another having enjoyed Rubik's
    Cube, fractals, Sudoku, logic problems, certain types of lateral
    thinking puzzles, and many other diversions. Other mathematical
    recreations include mathematical puzzles, mathematical chess
    puzzles, Conway's Game of Life, tangrams, and more.

    However, it should not be assumed that recreational mathematics


    is without any practical use. Recreational mathematics has
    spurred the development of several fields of mathematics; to take
    one example, the problem of the Königsberg Bridges influenced
    the development of the field of graph theory.
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    EXAMPLE:

    Benjamin Franklin's Magic Square


    Benjamin Franklin, an 18th-century American printer, politician, diplomat, scientist, inventor, etc., etc., enjoyed
    creating magic squares in his free time.

    In Franklin's autobiography, he mentions that in his


    youth he had created an 8×8 semi-magic square
    with a magic sum of 260, which also had the
    properties that each half-row sums to 130, and that
    each "bent row", as Franklin described it, summed to
    260. An example "bent row" is illustrated in red in the
    magic square on the right.
    Sociable Numbers
    Sociable numbers are similar to amicable numbers. A chain of numbers is sociable if
    the sum of the proper divisors of each number is the next number in the chain, the
    last number preceding the first. The first two chains were found by Poulet in 1918.
    The first chain contains five members, 12,496 → 14,288 → 15,472 → 14,536 →
    14,264 → 12,496, while the second chain contains a remarkable 28 numbers.

    These two chains were the only known sociable chains until 1969, when Henri Cohen
    used a computer to check all numbers below 60,000,000, and he discovered seven
    new chains of four links. More have been found since then.

    Perfect numbers and amicable numbers could be considered special cases of


    sociable numbers. A perfect number could be considered as a chain of length 1, while
    amicable numbers could be seen as a chain of length 2. Curiously, no chains with just
    three links (which someone named "crowds") have been found.

    This process of traversing sociable chains is somewhat reminiscent of looping. See


    ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

    Find 10 recreational problems in


    mathematics. Write the origin
    including why or how it is created ,
    the problem itself and the solution of
    the problem. Be ready to discuss it
    next meeting.

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