{"id":33,"date":"2013-11-02T19:14:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T19:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2013-12-20T19:39:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T14:09:18","slug":"how-to-construct-a-4-x-4-magic-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/how-to-construct-a-4-x-4-magic-square\/","title":{"rendered":"How to construct a 4 x 4 magic square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a 4 x 4 Magic Square with Magic-Total 34<\/p>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-4x4-magic-square\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-4x4-magic-square tblMagic\">\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">16<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">2<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">3<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">5<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">11<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">10<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">9<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">7<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">6<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">4<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">14<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">15<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-4x4-magic-square from cache -->\n<ol>\n<li>Draw a 4&#215;4 empty square.<\/li>\n<li>Draw two diagonals.<\/li>\n<li>Start counting all the squares from the top left towards right.<\/li>\n<li>Now start writing numbers 1 to 16, count all squares and write numbers ONLY IN THE BLANK SQUARES (2,3,5,8,9,12,14,15 are to be written)<\/li>\n<li>Now start writing number from the bottom most right square towards left, count all squares, BUT WRITE NUMBERS ONLY IN THE SQUARES HAVING DIAGONAL LINES ONLY (1,4,6,7,10,11,13 AND 16) ARE TO BE WRITTEN.<\/li>\n<li>Magic square 4&#215;4 is ready.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Note:\u00a0 This method is applicable only for 4&#215;4 magic square.\u00a0 For 6&#215;6, 8&#215;8 there are separate methods available. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a 4 x 4 Magic Square with Magic-Total 34 Draw a 4&#215;4 empty square. Draw two diagonals. Start counting all the squares from the top left towards right. Now start writing numbers 1 to 16, count all squares and write numbers ONLY IN THE BLANK SQUARES (2,3,5,8,9,12,14,15 are to be written) Now start &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/how-to-construct-a-4-x-4-magic-square\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to construct a 4 x 4 magic square<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9,13],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-square","category-recreational-math","category-recreational-mathematics","category-tutorial","tag-tutorial-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jollymaths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}