most-perfect magic square

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most-perfect magic square (plural most-perfect magic squares)

  1. (number theory, recreational mathematics) A magic square of order n containing the numbers 1 to n2 and where each 2 × 2 subsquare sums to 2s, where s = n2 + 1, and all pairs of integers distant n/2 along a (major) diagonal sum to s.