Pascal’s triangle: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	Yanghui triangle • Yang Hui triangle

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Yang Hui's triangle

Pascal's triangle is shown with diagonal lines highlighting how the sums of certain diagonals correspond to Fibonacci numbers, with numbers increasing from 1 to 13 along the marked diagonals.

Sierpiński's triangle, or the Sierpiński gasket

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Topics

figurate number binomial coefficients binomial theorem Fibonacci sequence triangle Heron’s formula

Key People

French philosopher Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

French philosopher and scientist

Equations written on blackboard

Numbers and Mathematics