Questions tagged [latin-square]
For questions about latin squares, latin rectangles, their enumeration, their properties, generalisations and related combinatorial configurations such as MOLS (sets of Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares).
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Minimal-information description of sudoku solution (Latin square)
Sudoku puzzles consist of a $9 \times 9$ grid of cells in which some cells contain integers from the set $\{ 1, \ldots, 9 \}$ and the task is to fill in the remaining cells such that the numbers $1$ ...
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Comparing the perfect groups of order 1344
Take two nonisomorphic perfect groups of order 1344 and label the elements of each with the numbers 1 through 1344, then superimpose their respective Cayley tables (for simplicity’s sake, the nth row ...
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Should the "L" in the term latin/Latin square be capitalized? [closed]
In Denes and Keedwell's book the word "latin" is not capitalized, and there seems to be some precedent in the literature for this usage. However, the vast majority of work on the subject ...