Solution

Congratulations to German Gonzalez, a computer engineering student, for two wonderful solutions.

In the first solution, he used consecutive integers from 1 to 26. The 8 small circles have magic sum 62. The 2 bigger circles have a magic sum of 103.

In the second solution, he used consecutive numbers from 1 to 22, and from 54 to 57 to obtain a magic sum of 95 for all circles. We do not know if there are other solutions with lesser sums.


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