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 Posted 08/30/2011  3:19 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add neweden to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Coin-Or-What

Anyone know what this is?

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I believe those are numbers in the grid in the Devangari script--from the Indian subcontinent.
It could be several languages; I cannot tell which.
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 Posted 08/30/2011  10:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add agandau to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It is a talisman, like a good luck charm. The diagram is a magic number square, where all three rows, all three columns and the two diagonals all add up to 36.

13 - 8 - 15
14 - 12 - 10
9 - 16 - 11

As DVCollector stated, the numerals are Devanagari from the Indian subcontinent.

What is one the other side?
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an early form of sudoku ?
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 Posted 08/31/2011  10:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
yup, also known as magic squares. some 4*4 versions add across, down and diaginally, plus each block of four.
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