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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The real reality is that both Blaise Pascal and the Chinese stole the triangle idea in retrospect from a budding young Australian mathematician.
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