magic square

English

Noun

magic square (plural magic squares)

1. (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.

2. (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

• Catalan: àbac màgic m, quadrat màgic m
• Finnish: taikaneliö
• German: magisches Quadrat
• Hungarian: bűvös négyzet

• Portuguese: quadrado mágico (pt) m
• Romanian: pătrat magic n
• Russian: маги́ческий квадра́т (ru) m (magíčeskij kvadrát)
• Spanish: cuadrado mágico m

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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• Magic square on Wikipedia.Wikipedia