What is a Magic Square?
A Magic Square is a grid of numbers where the totals of all the columns, rows and diagonals are equal .
IN this Magic square , if you add together all the numbers in each row (e.g. 4 + 9 + 2 ), column (e.g. 2 + 7 + 6 ) and diagonal (4 + 5 + 6 ) the total will be 15.
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So for the following magic square the total of each row, column and diagonal will be the same:
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