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'Magic squares' long revered as order in the universe
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Luoshu was allegedly the first documented "magic square" in the
world.
A magic square in mathematics is an array of numbers, in which the
numbers in each row, each line and each of the two diagonals have the
same sum.
And Luoshu is a 3x3 array of the numbers one through to nine, in
which the numbers in each of the three rows, each of the three lines
and each of the two diagonals have the same sum of 15.
Chinese mathematician Yang Hui recorded in a book in 1275 some
magic ...
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