"A normal magic square contains the integers from 1 to n²." Why not just say it generates the nth normal odd magic square?
On 2/4/07, Alec Mihailovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: "Timothy Clemans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > My function clearly stated magicsquare_normal_odd by being called that > > so its fine and I would just call yours that too. In the docstring I > > would say "computes nth odd normal magic square". This function is for > > a special case of normal magic squares. > > AFAICT, there is no such thing as a normal magic square. What do you mean by > normal? > > I used 'Siamese' to specify the particular well-known case. If other > algorithms are planned for including, a better name may be > magic_square.Siamese , I think. The docstring may be "For an odd n, returns > $n\times n$ Siamese magic square." > > Alec > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
