The ordinary form of magic square, which was formerly in use in Europe, is the following; it is occasionally found even among the Malays.
The ordinary Malay astrologer most likely understands very little of the peculiar properties of a magic square, and consequently he not unfrequently makes mistakes in the arrangement of the figures.
It is clear that the arrangement of numbers in a magic square is necessitous--they must be placed in a certain way in order that the summation of every column shall be the same.
If, in such a magic square, a simple graphic symbol be substituted for the numbers belonging to each order, pattern spontaneously springs to life.
The left hand drawing in Figure 4 represents the smallest aggregation of numbers that is capable of magic square arrangement.
Adjacent to this, in the upper right hand corner, is a magic square of four.
Here be set out sixteen bottles in form of a square, and I pray you so place them afresh that they shall form a magic square, adding up to thirty in all the ten straight ways.
Our most learned Lexicon Technicum is of the latter Opinion, and gives the Magic Square and the Magic Lantern, two Terms of Art.
Nearly everybody knows that a "magic square" is an arrangement of numbers in the form of a square so that every row, every column, and each of the two long diagonals adds up alike.
An infinite variety of puzzles may be made introducing new conditions into the magic square.
Now, the puzzle is to cut these strips into the fewest possible pieces so that they may be placed together and form a magic square, the seven rows, seven columns, and two diagonals adding up the same number.
From a perfect magic ring of n^2 cells containing one number each, n^2 distinct magic squares can be read off; as the four numbers round each intersection of a zonal circle and a transverse circle constitute corner numbers of a magic square.
Two interesting magical arrangements are said to have been given by Benjamin Franklin; these have been termed the "magic square of squares" and the "magic circle of circles.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "magic square" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
