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Magic Circles

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A set of $n$ magic circles is a numbering of the intersections of the $n$ Circles such that the sum over all intersections is the same constant for all circles. The above sets of three and four magic circles have magic constants 14 and 39 (Madachy 1979).

See also Magic Graph, Magic Square


References

Madachy, J. S. Madachy's Mathematical Recreations. New York: Dover, p. 86, 1979.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-26