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Mainly for Eurocentric reasons. The triangle was well known more than 1800 years before Pascal. In Iran it is known as the Khayyam triangle (Omar Khayyam , 11-12 century); in China, it is known as Yang Hui's triangle after the Chinese mathematician from the 13th century.

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