Definition

Pascal's triangle

Also known as: triangle of tartaglia, tartaglia's triangle

A triangular array of numbers where each entry is the sum of the two directly above it, starting from a single 1 at the top. Each row lists the binomial coefficients, which count the head-and-tail combinations for a given number of flips: row four, for example, reads 1, 4, 6, 4, 1 — the number of ways to get zero, one, two, three or four heads in four coin flips.


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