Harry White notes that the Declaration actually has 176 lines and 8859 characters Entering the file in this rectangular fashion results in a 1936 x 1936 magic square that takes 2 seconds of computing time to produce Durer s magic square in Melencolia I has many facets of interest One of those facets is the fact that he was able to put the date of its creation 1514 in the magic square This water writing continues the tradition of embedding information in the structure of a magic square