So today I learned of the existence of bimagic squares. That is, a magic square where, if you square all the entries, results in another magic square.
The smallest true bimagic square (the sum of all rows, columns, and both diagonals are the same) is 6X6. If you relax the requirement on the diagonal sums you can drop to 5X5.
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