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Magic-in-more-than-one-way Square (Posted on 2004-06-24)

The following square is magic in more than one way -- can you see why?

 5	22	18	
28	15	 2	
12	 8	25

See The Solution Submitted by Federico Kereki

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re: More on the solution

| Comment 10 of 12 |

(In reply to More on the solution by Erik O.)

To be a magic square, each diagonal must add to the same value as each row and each column. But, for example, 81+55+20 is not equal to 81+21+51.

Posted by Charlie on 2004-06-26 00:33:24

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