As^Abithmeticai, Cueiosity.—The Loridon Athenaeum contains the following curious arrangement of figures :—
It will be seen that the sum of each line, each column, and each diagonal, is—34. The four corner figures—34. The corner figures of any square of four figures (of which there are four in the larger square) —34. The four figures of the central gquare-r34. The four figures of each corner. of the whole square—34; making altogether twenty different ways in which 34 may be reckoned. The other sums of 34 may be obtained by taking the figure which stands next to the corner figure, going round from left to right thus, 3, 8, 14, 9—34. Then take the figures which stand to the. left of the corner figures, going the other way round, 2, 5, 15,12-34.
16 5 9 4 3 10 6 15 2 11 7 14 13 8 12 1
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2147, 20 November 1875, Page 3
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