I don't know enough about SAGE graphics to make the arrows and stuff
but I could color cells.

On 2/5/07, Alec Mihailovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > "A normal magic square contains the integers from 1 to n²." Why not
> > just say it generates the nth normal odd magic square?
>
> OK, that explains the meaning of "normal" that I was not aware of. Anyway,
> there are many such mugic squares with integers from 1 to n^2, and there are
> many standard methods for their construction that could be included in the
> module magic_square. In particular, pyramid method gives another standard
> construction for odd n. That's why I think that the name of the algorithm
> used should be included.
>
> magic_square module could include other useful functions, such as test, for
> example - for testing whether the matrix represents a magic square.
>
> Alec
>
> PS It would be interesting if your original code could be modified for
> producing an animation of the magic square - so that the numbers 1, 2, etc.
> appear in the matrix with some time interval between them. I wonder if some
> of included in SAGE packages have such an ability to display an animated
> output -Alec
>
>
>
> >
>

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