Playing games with a local monk

Playing games with a local monk
Monk teaching the "magical square" (a mathematic puzzle) to Jean-Christophe
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6 Comments

  1. Anja
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 15:20 | Permalink
    The magical square??? That sounds interesting and challenging at the same time. Is there a European equivalent?
  2. Ivana Berthon
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 16:36 | Permalink
    Un magical square pour les magical boy and girl du Magical World
  3. Anja
    Posted January 5, 2008 at 19:08 | Permalink
    True :-)
  4. Vera & Jean-Christophe
    Posted January 6, 2008 at 15:30 | Permalink
    A magical square is simple. You draw a square and divide it surface in 9 equal smaller squares (in other words, you have a table of 3 lines and 3 columns). Now, the rule is that you have to put the numbers 1 to 9 in each little square. And you can put of course each number only once (like in a sudoku a bit). Now the sum in line or column or in the 2 main diagonal of the table should be always equal to 15. Check those links for more information (warning, spoiler inside) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_square mathworld.wolfram.com/MagicSquare.html Jean-Christophe
  5. Anja
    Posted January 6, 2008 at 15:39 | Permalink
    Oh, thanks a lot for the info. I'll come back to check on the background of it. In the meantime, I've faved the photo and added some tags :-)
  6. horsesandcats
    Posted April 6, 2010 at 23:56 | Permalink
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