magic square
English
Noun
magic square (plural magic squares)
- (games) A palindromic square word arrangement, usually in the form of a magic amulet.
- Probably the best-known magic square is the 5×5 square consisting of the words ROTAS OPERA TENET AREPO SATOR.
- (number theory) An n-by-n arrangement of n2 numbers such that the numbers in each row, in each column and along both diagonals all have the same sum.
Magic amulet
3 x 3 magic square
Derived terms
terms derived from magic square
- antimagic square
- bimagic square
- most-perfect magic square
- multimagic square
- panmagic square
- prime reciprocal magic square
- trimagic square
Translations
n-by-n arrangement of n2 numbers
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See also
other terms of interest
- bimagic cube
- diabolic square
- heterosquare
- Lo Shu square
- magic circle
- magic constant
- magic cube
- magic cylinder
- magic hexagon
- magic hypercube
- magic series
- magic sphere
- magic star
- magic tesseract
- multimagic cube
- pantriagonal magic cube
- perfect magic cube
- satanic square
- semiperfect magic cube
- simple magic cube
- sudoku
- trimagic cube
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