Pascal’s Triangle is a triangle made out of numbers. It looks like this:
What this picture of Pascal’s Triangle is showing is a different triangle pattern called the Sierpinski Fractal. Here’s a picture of it:
I hope you can see the similarities between the two pictures. There are also other patterns that can be found in the Pascal Triangle, one which you will no doubt recognize (unless you’re in, like, 4th grade or something…). This patter is…
The Fibonacci Sequence!
If you look closer, you can find many more patterns, for example every horizontal row just so happens to make a power of 11. Others include the counting numbers, triangular numbers, so and so forth.
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