Spanish alphamagic square

In a previous post I gave an example of an alphamagic square in English. This is a magic square such that if you replace each number with the letter count when spelling out the word, you get another magic square.

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I wondered whether I could find an alphamagic square in Spanish, so I wrote a script to look. I found two. (Plus there are eight rotations and reflections of each.)

The first is the following:

[[93, 155, 121], [151, 123, 95], [125, 91, 153]]

When spelled out in Spanish the numbers are:

[[noventa y tres, ciento cincuenta y cinco, ciento veintiuno], [ciento cincuenta y uno, ciento veintitrés, noventa y cinco], [ciento veinticinco, noventa y uno, ciento cincuenta y tres]]

And the number of letters in each cell gives:

[[12, 21, 15],[19, 16, 13], [17, 11, 20]]

Here’s a second example:

[[95, 156, 124], [154, 125, 96], [126, 94, 155]]

Spelled out in Spanish:

[[noventa y cinco, ciento cincuenta y seis, ciento veinticuatro], [ciento cincuenta y cuatro, ciento veinticinco, noventa y seis], [ciento veintiséis, noventa y cuatro, ciento cincuenta y cinco]]

Sum of the letters:

[[13, 20, 18], [22, 17, 12], [16, 14, 21]]

If my script is correct, these are the only examples (besides their rotations and reflections) for numbers between 1 and 200.

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