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Fashion a square to house all nine prime numbers

Jim Howson
Wednesday 11 March 2009 11:59

This remarkable 3x3 array, discovered by Saffron Walden reader Tom Marlow, features a prime number along all three-digit sequences - horizontally, vertically, diagonally and starting from either end in each case. The eight primes shown are: 337; 383; 389; 733; 739; 787; 937; and 983.

Tom now asks you to find a similar 3x3 array, again with all three-digit sequences (forwards or backwards) providing a prime number where nine different primes are showing, which is apparently the theoretical maximum.

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