In order to generalise the binomial theorem we need to come up with a new symbol to represent the binomial coefficient.

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Blaise Pascal is credited with the triangle that allows us to work out the coefficients of binomial expansions. The reality is that it was the Chinese hundreds of years before Pascal that first saw this pattern.

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