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No. IX
This up-to-date magic square adds up to 1908 in quite 56 different symmetrical ways.
| 469 | 484 | 472 | 483 |
| 481 | 474 | 478 | 475 |
| 482 | 471 | 485 | 470 |
| 476 | 479 | 473 | 480 |
Here are 44 of them—
| Rows | 4 |
| Columns | 4 |
| Diagonals | 2 |
| The corners | 1 |
| Corners of squares of 9 cells | 4 |
| Squares of 4 cells | 9 |
| Opposite pairs of outside cells | 6 |
| Opposite pairs of short diagonals | |
| Such combinations as 469, 481, 485, 473 | 8 |
| Such combinations as 482, 484, 472, 470 | |
| Total | 44 |
There are a dozen other ways, more or less symmetrical, such as 481, 474, 483, 470; or 474, 485, 470, 479.
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