Magic squares: would you believe…?

David L. Pagni · The Arithmetic Teacher · 1974

A magic square of nth order is a square array of n rows and n columns whose components are n^2 distinct integers. Furthermore, the sum of the numbers in any row, column, or main diagonal must always equal a constant—the “magic constant.– The array in figure I, then, is a magic square of 3rd order whose magic constant is the number 15.

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