Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!ptimtc!nntp-server.caltech.edu!antonyc From: antonyc@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Antony Chan) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: PWERSQR1.ZIP - Makes squares, sides multiply to same product Message-ID: <1991Jun17.083513.16388@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 17 Jun 91 08:35:13 GMT References: <910605075253.2020303e@CORRAL.UWYO.EDU> <1991Jun7.202749.26649@uwasa.fi> Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 23 ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes: >In article <910605075253.2020303e@CORRAL.UWYO.EDU> basher@OUTLAW.UWYO.EDU (John A Marsh) writes: >>I have uploaded to SIMTEL20: >> >>pd1: >>PWERSQR1.ZIP Makes squares, sides multiply to same product >> >>Power Square creates squares whose horizontal, vertical and >>diagonal components all multiply to the same product. User >>defines several parameters. Thousands of different squares are >>possible. The program is free. Source code is $5. >I am pleased to see these descriptions, and please don't get me the >wrong way since this is meant as a friendly feedback. Looking at >this description the user (or I at least) cannot see what the >program is for. The description is too scanty and ambiguous. from the description, i would imagine that this program would create a square array of numbers, akin to a magic square, whose rows, etc., instead of adding to the same sum, multiply to the same product. parameters would probably be size of square, desired product... i guess this is the case without actually trying the program.