Sunday, August 23, 2009

Magus Quadratus


My sister sent me on a hunt for a "magic Latin box" which conjured up images of treasure chests filled with short cuts to understanding Latin. What she meant was this magic square. Note how backwards, forwards, up and down, it always says the same thing. Here's the website where I found it which explains mathematical magic squares as well.

What is a magic square?

So besides our Roman numeral Sudoku, and those moments of grammatical decoding that required the math part of the brain, we now have yet another way to connect math and Latin.

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