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كتاب النور الساطع والسر القاطع في علم الاوفاق.
Kitāb al-Nūr al-sāṭiʻ wa-al-sirr al-qāṭiʻ fī ʻilm al-awfāq.
1820-1860
A work on magic squares; the first chapter has seven sections. The first deals with those having three squares per side; the second with those having four; section three, those with five; section four, those with six; section five, those with seven; section six, those with eight on a side; the seventh with those having nine. A further section deals with 10-sided squares. The final chapter is devoted to the properties of letters.
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