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Magic Squares.. S. C. GOULD, Editor: Dear Sir and Brother: Please accept my thanks for the NOTES AND QUERIES I have received. I am still very much interested in "Magic Squares," and, therefore, make free to point out that the square in Vol. XVIII, No. 1, p. 26, in my opinion cannot be called a perfect magic square. I am aware that a square can very casily be made to add magically; but a perfect magic sqnare must be made of numbers succeeding in some arithmetical progression of the first order, and that every couple of numbers standing in corresponding cells must add alike. The maker of the square in the January number of NOTES AND QUERIES remarks that " it has been claimed that a magic square composed of an even number of numbers, of sixteen, like the above, could not be formed that will add, odd, as 1899." I will only point out that the square on 6, consisting of the 36 first numbers, will add 111; the square on 10, similarly, will add 505; the square on 14, similarly, will add 1379, and so on. But these squares and all other squares on oddly even numbers I cannot make perfect, and I never have seen any such on oddly even numbers that were perfect. Is it possible to con struct such a square? For the present year two snch perfect squares may be made, as follows: 378 391 374 387 370 371 379 392 375 383 384 372 380 388 376 377 385 368 381 389 390 373 386 369 382 All the corresponding cells in the 5-square above, taken two and two add 760; taken four and four they add 2 X 760, etc. 206 268 208 266 265 211 263 213 261 215 259 217 218 256 220 254 As to magic squares I am interested only in what I call perfect ones. Those of odd numbers are very easily made. Constant for all such squares art the two diagonals which may be written down first, and then the rest can be put down after the simple method as now in this paper. If we call the number on which the square is made R, we shall then have given : |