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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Blaise Pascal.
Blaise Pascal.
Pascal's triangle
pascals triangle is used to solve math problems that have chance of 2 different outcomes, such as flipping a coin
The Sierpinski Triangle
Pascal didn't invent pascals triangle, he just made It popular. A Chinese mathematician invented it in about 1015.
in the 11th century...
(a+b)7
35
1,4,6,4,1
depends. If you start Pascals triangle with (1) or (1,1). The fifth row with then either be (1,4,6,4,1) or (1,5,10,10,5,1). The sums of which are respectively 16 and 32.