Pascal's Triangle

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:mathematical_concept
gptkbp:appearsIn mathematics education
number theory
algebra textbooks
combinatorics textbooks
gptkbp:describes binomial coefficients
gptkbp:firstDescribed gptkb:Chinese_mathematicians
gptkb:Persian_mathematicians
gptkbp:firstRow 1
gptkbp:hasApplication probability
algebraic expansions
combinatorial problems
gptkbp:hasEntry C(n, k) at row n and position k
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Pascal's Triangle
gptkbp:knownInChinaAs gptkb:Yang_Hui's_Triangle
gptkbp:knownInPersiaAs gptkb:Khayyam_Triangle
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Blaise_Pascal
gptkbp:popularizedBy gptkb:Blaise_Pascal
gptkbp:property appears in binomial theorem
appears in combinatorial identities
appears in probability calculations
contains tetrahedral numbers
contains triangular numbers
each number is the sum of the two numbers directly above it
can be constructed recursively
can be generalized to other number systems
contains Fibonacci numbers along shallow diagonals
diagonals correspond to figurate numbers
entries are non-negative integers
modulo 2 forms Sierpinski triangle
rows are symmetric
sum of elements in nth row is 2^n
used to expand binomials
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Lucas_numbers
gptkb:binomial_theorem
gptkb:Catalan_numbers
gptkb:Sierpinski_triangle
gptkb:Fibonacci_sequence
binomial coefficients
combinatorial mathematics
probability distributions
algebraic identities
gptkbp:rowN contains coefficients of (a+b)^n
gptkbp:secondRow 1, 1
gptkbp:shape triangular array
gptkbp:thirdRow 1, 2, 1
gptkbp:usedIn gptkb:algebra
gptkb:probability_theory
combinatorics
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Blaise_Pascal
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5