Friday, January 29, 2010

Pascal's Triangle II

Pascal's Triangle was originally developed by the ancient Chinese, but Blaise Pascal was the first person to discover the importance of all of the patterns it contained. He was the first one to organize all of the information and put it all together. This happened in 1653. A number in the triangle can be found by nCr (n Choose r) where n is the number of the row and r is the element in that row. The formula for nCr is: n!
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r!(n-r)!


-Lindsey

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