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Pascal's Triangle: 8101 Class VIII A1

Pascal's Triangle is a mathematical figure with many patterns and properties. It is generated by starting with 1 and adding pairs of numbers from the preceding row to create each new row. Each row corresponds to coefficients of binomial expansions and the sums of the rows are successive powers of two. The diagonals exhibit other patterns like consecutive natural numbers, triangular numbers, and Fibonacci numbers. It has historical names in different cultures but is named after French mathematician Blaise Pascal in the Western world.

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Pascal's Triangle: 8101 Class VIII A1

Pascal's Triangle is a mathematical figure with many patterns and properties. It is generated by starting with 1 and adding pairs of numbers from the preceding row to create each new row. Each row corresponds to coefficients of binomial expansions and the sums of the rows are successive powers of two. The diagonals exhibit other patterns like consecutive natural numbers, triangular numbers, and Fibonacci numbers. It has historical names in different cultures but is named after French mathematician Blaise Pascal in the Western world.

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Pascal’s Triangle

This may look like a


neatly arranged stack of
numbers, but it's actually
a mathematical treasure
trove. Indian
mathematicians called it
the Staircase of Mount
Meru. In Iran, it's the
Khayyam Triangle. And in
China, it's Yang Hui's
Triangle. To much of the
Western world, it's
known as Pascal's
Triangle after French
mathematician Blaise
Pascal.
This figure is full of patterns and secrets, some of which we are going to unravel
now.
First and foremost, there's the pattern that generates
it.
Start with one and imagine invisible zeros on either
side of it. Add them together in pairs, and you'll
generate the next row. Now, do that again and again.
What you’ll wind up with is the Pascal’s triangle. Each
row corresponds to what's called the coefficients of a
binomial expansion of the form (x+y) n, where n is the
number of the row, starting from zero. Add up the
numbers in each row, and you'll get successive
powers of two. Join the numbers in each row, and
you’ll get successive multiples of 11. The first diagonal is all ones. The second
diagonal consists of successive natural numbers. The third diagonal consists of
triangular numbers, since you can make equilateral triangles with that many
number of dots. Similarly, the fourth row consists of tetrahedral numbers. If we
shade all the odd numbers with equilateral triangles, we will get a fractal known
as Sierpinski's Triangle.
The numbers on the diagonals of the triangle sum up to consecutive Fibonacci
Numbers. When the first number to the right of the 1 in any row is a prime
number, all numbers in that row are divisible by that prime number.

Aditya Jain
8101
Class VIII A1

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