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Blaise Pascal first described his triangle for generating the coefficients of a binomial expansion in 1665. The Chinese version, however, is centuries older. It was included as an illustration in Zhu Shijie's Siyuan yujian (1303; “Precious Mirror of Four Elements”), where it was already called the “Old Method.”
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First paragraph modernization. Apr 25, 2024
Modified title of Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of Yang Hui. Jan 16, 2017
Added new Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of Yang Hui. Apr 04, 2008
New article added. May 12, 2005
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