I first encountered Pascal’s triangle on a worksheet my older brother brought home from school when I was in eighth grade. At the time, I was taking geometry (with a teacher who had a cool pair of ...

Rows zero through five of Pascal’s triangle. The pattern continues on into infinity. Two of the sides are filled with 1's and all the other numbers are generated by adding the two numbers above.

So if we use the formula for choose, Pascal's triangle becomes this. Compare it with the picture of cube slices. Amazingly, the number of vertices within each cube slice directly corresponds to ...

For example, adding up all the numbers in the first 5 rows of Pascal’s triangle gives us the 5th Mersenne number, 31 (which is 1 less than 2 to the power of 5).

Which meant that soon after publishing his 1653 book on the subject, “Pascal’s triangle” was born! > Continue reading on QuickAndDirtyTips.com. About Math Dude Jason Marshall.

It is Pascal's Triangle, the pyramid of numbers in which the series in the next line is given by adding together adjacent pairs in the line above to generate 1, 1 1, 1 2 1, 1 3 3 1, 1 4 6 4 1, and ...