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Pascal's Triangle

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Pascal's triangle [pa′skalz ′trī‚aŋ·gəl]
(mathematics)
A triangular array of the binomial coefficients, bordered by ones, where the sum of two adjacent entries from a row equals the entry in the next row directly below. Also known as binomial array.

Pascal’s Triangle 

a triangular array of numbers used to obtain binomial coefficients. It was published by B. Pascal.



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You do not need to be able to understand Pascal's Triangle to appreciate what all that adds up to.
The array of numbers below is called Pascal's triangle.
A few decades later, Blaise Pascal - now more famous for Pascal's wager, which advises you to place your bets on God's existence and live accordingly - devised a table of probabilities now known as Pascal's triangle, which allows gamblers to calculate the probability that a certain sequence of numbers will occur (for the record, there are 7,059,052 ways of choosing six numbers out of a sequence of 44).
 
 
 
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