Are you talking about a pipe stem triangle? It's composed of twisted wire running through three clay pipes in the shape of an equilateral triangle. It is placed on an iron ring attached to a ring stand, and is used to hold a crucible over the flame of a Bunsen burner.
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There are a variety of practical uses for Pascal's triangle. Some of these include algebra, probability, as well as triangular numbers.
maybe if some place were in a triangle shape and if you had a sort out the length of the place they use it
Hindu studies of combinatorics but Pascal discoevered more uses for it. If you add up the diagonals of Pascal's triangle, the sums are the entries of the Fibonacci Sequence.
To find this you need to imagine the pipe slit straight down and rolled out. At this point what you have is 10 right triangles, with the base of the triangle being the circumference of the pipe and the height of the triangle being the height of the pipe divided by the number of wrappings. The hypotenuse then is the length of one wrapping. Multiply that number by the number of wrappings and voila, you have the length of the wire.
We can use it to find the coefficients of numbers when we expand a binomial. We also use it in probability theory. In fact there are many uses for it.