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Macau's magic square stamps just made philately even more nerdy

Postage goes meta as new Chinese stamps celebrate an ancient number pattern by themselves appearing in a pattern. According to Chinese legend a turtle like the one above crept out of the Yellow River about 4000 years ago. It looks like it is riddled with spots, or bullet holes. But if you look carefully, the dots on its back represent the digits from 1 to 9 arranged in the following way: 492 357 …

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