Magic Stars

Abstract

Magic squares have intrigued people for thousands of years and in ancient times they were thought to be connected with the supernatural and hence, magical. Today, we might sti ll think of them as being magical, for the sum of each row, column and diagonal is a constant, the magic constant. The problem of construction is twofold. An algorithm which works for odd order squares will not work for even order squares without the further addition of another algorithm. Odd magic squares are fairly easily constructed using the either the Siamese