6Feb/091
Number Puzzle #6 – Solution
Two days ago, I posted this simple little number puzzle. Quite a few folks came up with the answer below. One of the interesting questions you can ask is whether that solution is unique.
Clearly there are two lines of symmetry in the original problem so by reflection alone we come up with a total of four solutions: 
where 
and 
represent “flips” across the lines of symmetry and 
represents the identity, or the solution above. By 
, I mean the composition of the flipping operations or just consecutive flipping.
There also exists radial symmetry at 
, but this is equivalent to . So for this arrangement above, there are four solutions of the same “type”.
Are any other arrangements possible besides these four?