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The nail is just a typical steel (ferrous) nail from a shop. Being a soft magnetic material, there would be induced magnetism while...

That makes sense. Thanks for that. The image from OP there are three alternating poles, with the two ring magnets and one central disc...

It could have been explained better, I agree. The magnets in the photo are static magnets and the interpole boundary is the neutral line...